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Originally Posted by DeezNutz
The minor league system is very encouraging, but the problem is that DM has provided precious little evidence that he is capable of managing and assembling a ML roster.
Yes, build from within, but our GM will need to supplement with strong trades and FA acquisitions. The latter two categories haven't been entirely disastrous, but the biggest (and most expensive) moves that he's made have been failures. And some of these failures defied good baseball sense from the onset.
If he ends up being the world's greatest drafter, I suppose he'll overcome a lot of errors, but that's damn near asking for the world.
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The question, really though, is whether he makes better trades from a position of strength in the future. For the most part, he's been trying to convert chicken shit into chicken salad (or better). Nunez didn't have near the trade value he would have today. At the time, he was a decent reliever who most thought would be injury prone. Ram Ram had a very good year with us, but was awful the previous year. He traded Burgos at the right time. Howell made himself into a decent reliever, but he's been injured. The bottom line is that he hasn't been trading quality for quality. We'll see what he gets in return when he actually has something of value to trade away.