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Originally Posted by alnorth
DM's thoughts
Reading between the lines, it almost seems like Moore is trying to be nice about it while hinting that he doesn't think DDJ is going to do well next year coming off the injury and he wants to get what he can now from a team desperate for hitting help.
Mazzaro is not a stud, but he wanted him so that we wouldn't be forced to rush one of our AA studs before they were ready, and Marks is a throw-in.
I don't know, if DDJ stumbles out of the gate with a sub-700 OPS then he'll look smart, and I can understand not wanting to play Aaron Crow, but you can always sign some other dude as your 5th starter. I would have kept DDJ, take the gamble that he'll give me what he's given his whole career, and try to sign him.
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Well, thank you for that. One of the first phrases is "cost effective," and that's when I threw the **** up.