[DJ's left nut]

I'm harder on Mozeliak than most.

For me, he lost Luhnow and we're starting to see really quickly that he's probably about an average GM.

The Cult of Moe continues to prop up players that simply aren't that good as evidence of Mozeliak's brilliance.

I don't really blame him for Wacha; the shoulder issue seems to have ****ed him up and frankly, when Wacha stared down Kershaw and was throwing 98 mph with one of the best changeups in the league (and a developing curve), why would you deal him? That would be like saying that the Mets should move Syndergaard - Wacha looked to have more value to the Cards than anything they could get for him. He just hasn't ever recovered from the shoulder thing, his changeup has regressed and his curve has plateaued.

My problem with Mozeliak is his history of half-measures and Luhnow's stocked system making Mozeliak think this was an easy job that you can excel at without taking risks. He's constantly touting his position as the 2nd best offer on the table (Kang, Price and Moncada are notable examples but it goes back further than that). He hasn't been willing to move a signature prospect package for someone of true value in awhile but rather would just keep packaging one-offs for pieces of shit like Moss and Masterson. Ramsey, Kaminskey and Colleymore isn't appreciably more than it took to get Holliday but instead it got us...well pretty much nothing.

The bottom line to me is that Moe was good enough when the rest of the division was weak. Theo, OTOH, is unquestionably better than him and I think Huntington might be as well. Moe's good enough to keep us competitive but it seems damn unlikely to me that he'll do anything to real in Theo and the Cubs. They're smarter than us with deeper pockets. Unless they experience the same kind of talent drain we did in the front office (and unless Theo also proves to be an empty suit), we'll just keep losing ground to them.