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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
This is true. It also needs to be said that we did try this already this year, and with Mo in the past, even if he sucks dick:
Ian Snell
Matt Clement
Brad Penny
Jocketty had a number of blowups as well with that, including Wellemeyer and that fat **** Ponson.
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Penny was the same as Westbrook - that boy got
paid. That was no Jocketty move.
Clement wasn't a Jocketty move in that he'd been a season removed from his injury and was still throwing 82. It wasn't 'high upside, no downside', it was garbage in, garbage out.
Snell, OTOH, is a great example. He's a lot like a guy that Jocketty would've brought in. Then again, Jocketty had enough influence within the organization to ensure that Snell got a shot. Meanwhile, Moe - LaRussa's hand-puppet - had essentially buried Snell before the season even started. Snell barely got a sniff in ST while LaRussa was fellating himself to a 40 yr old Batista.
But the most telling are the 'blowups' you cited - Ponson and Nibblemeyer. Neither of those guys were true disasters. Wellemeyer became one, but only Mozeliak chose to give him real money. As a cheap flyer, Wellemeyer was actually quite solid for us for a season+. Ponson could've been decent but/for the fact that LaRussa hated him. I gave up all hope for LaRussa they day he publicly emasculated Ponson on the mound because Ponson had the audacity to hit a guy after the batters spent the better part of the day raping us. It was an old-school baseball move and LaRussa bawled him out on the mound for it.
There are big differences between Jocketty's 'no risk' failures and Mozeliak's insanity.