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Originally Posted by petegz28
Soria sucked. Now they need to trade Kelvin or glue him to the 7th inning. Moore has made some bad decisions, imo, as of late.
Traded Davis for dick
Let Morales walk
Let Minor walk
Traded Alexander
Signed Gordon, never mind we overpaid
This is the bad Dayton Moore.
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A lot of this is all hindsight.
The book is still out on Soler. You can't give up on a 25 year old guy, especially after what we saw from Hos, Moose and Gordon. He has monster power. I'd be much more worried about Soler if he didn't tear up AAA last year. I wasn't thrilled with the trade but we still have Soler, and the Cubs did not win a World Series with Davis.
Morales posted a negative WAR last year and he's only getting older. Dayton would've been hammered if he signed a mid-30's DH to an 11 million a year contract.
We have no idea about the Minor or Alexander moves yet. I have a bad feeling we're going to regret the Alexander move. But you never know with relievers. The Minor one I'm not as sure about, just because he has a long injury history. There is a risk there in giving a guy like that $30 million.
I don't think Dayton has made any "great" moves the last couple years, but two years ago we were probably a playoff team that got off track because we lost Moose and Cain, two of our best players. This past year Dayton was in a real tough spot. Free agency was basically over and we lost one of our best starters. There's just no way to replace Ventura. Dayton had it set up to have a 1-2 punch with him and Duffy for years. Duffy got hurt and then a DUI, and you can't blame DM for Ventura's death. It's not like he didn't try to put a band aid on it... people thought we weren't going to sign Hammel or Wood, and he ended up signing them both, and they were probably the two best guys left out there. It just wasn't good enough.