Yeah, but there's this fallacy that spending more money = wins. That's simply not true. Everybody always says if he'd just spend more money it would take care of itself. He did that, and it didn't. You have the spend the money intelligently. He did bump up the payroll with guys like Meche and Guillen and whatnot and didn't make a difference. The team spent 75-80+ million in payroll and was still losing 90 a year. Numerous playoff teams spent less.
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Meche was an outstanding signing and exactly what we should be looking to do this off-season. Guillen, on the other hand, was an enormous mistake.
If you're trying to convince me that DM is a ****ing moron, you're going to have to work harder. I don't think you've ever been in the vaunted Pats...errr...Braves organization. Oh, and the Royals have one hell of a lineup today: Dyson, Betancourt, Frenchy, Pena, Getz. Power. |
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I don't think he's a moron, he's done some great things but also made some mistakes. I just think he deserves as much credit as Glass does for what has happened. Maybe that's wrong... but there have been plenty of teams who have been successful spending as much, or less money than the Royals. I liked the Meche signing, they did a great job with that. Hopefully we can do it again.
But to be fair, they probably overpaid for him at the time. And they'll have to do it again, and it might not matter. That's the scary part to me. They can offer the most money to some guys and it just won't be enough. It may have to be through trade. |
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No one picks the Royals to hit a single home run. LMAO. Frenchy getting a single hit gets the most votes. LMAO. This team provides so much unintentional humor. |
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And we're absolutely going to have to overpay for any FA (more so than other teams, since FAs are always overpaid) because Moore has continued to put a terrible product on the field. Finally, Moore is pretty gutless, IMO, because of his constant changing of "The Process" timeline. When he was hired, he said 8-10 years to win a World Series. Now, he's saying year 8 to be in a position to win. Just win. CYA Herm style. Again, as long as DM is the GM, the team will be mediocre at best. |
I think DM can be successful, but he needs a pitching consultant. the guy flatout rakes hitting talent into the organizations he works for. He also needs to get over his Yuni/Frenchy obsession. I really can't see how he hasn't already.
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Yeah, I don't care about all the process stuff though. I've said for a few years now that the prime years we should be looking at are the 2014-2017ish zone. That's when guys like Hosmer and Moose will have some experience under their belt, Butler and Gordon will be veterans... and then guys like Myers following them up.
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He's brought in a lot of pitching talent, but our development process has wasted far more talent than its produced thusfar.
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Keeping all of the pitching prospects was beyond absurd. But that's always been Moore's weakness: ML roster construction. Blind loyalty and inability to use statistical analysis are the prime deficiencies with DM. |
that is not how the braves worked, is it? There is more than one way to skin a cat. He stocks up the farm system, keeps it as rich as possible, and pulls players up as needed and they are ready. You will get no argument from me on his blind loyalty to some really shitty players, though.
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The braves made it work. Sure, it's anecdotal evidence, but DM was a part of that equation.
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