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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup
See that is how I feel about Brendan Ryan. He played horrible for us last season. He may be lighting it up for the Mariners but he never did it here. So it didn't and doesn't seem like a bad move to me.
Don't get me wrong I always liked him and hoped he would be our guy. He always seemed scrappy and kind of a pain to the pitchers.
But it didn't work out.
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He was phenomenal for us the year before. Then he started the season with a bum wrist and a completely bizarre approach at the plate (taught by our coaching staff). And even when he was 'horrible' for us at the plate last season, he was still the premier defensive SS in the national league.
He was never anywhere near 'horrible' overall.
Dealing him for a shitty reliever that should likely never see the major league level again was inexcusable at the time and remains so to this day. It was a bullshit attack by a curmudgeonly manager that needed a scapegoat to explain why the team he was supposed to motivate laid down and died last year.