Worst GM in MLB

Your standards are knowing what I'm talking about? What are you some sort of stalker? Every breath I take? Every move I make type of deal?

Knicksfan? Sting?

 

yet pitching is tougher to find

i'd think this is one of the rare high-profile trades that right now (and i'd really stress right now) both teams would do again in a heartbeat. if that's the case, don't both teams win? (well, unless you're talking about the reds -- they don't win often)

 

I think it's Minaya (ANYONE can just go out and sign th biggest name free agents; it takes a quality GM to actually assess chemistry and "good fits"), but Ned Colletti's inclusion on the list dealighted me to no end.

Much of the LA media remains in "Ned is great!!!" mode because they hated DePodesta so much. And he took a couple of risks that made sense at the time (Andruw Jones, Jason Schmidt), and they simply have not panned out.

 

It's one of those trades where both teams could have used the person they traded. The Reds would be better off with a bat in the middle of their lineup, and the Rangers would be better off with a stud pitcher. But neither team was better off with the player they had....

In the long run, I'd bet money on Hamilton being the better player.... Assuming he doesn't find a vial in Texas.

 

How did Jones make sense? I mean... Any sense at all?

 

Is it too late to nominate Neal Huntington as he no doubt will soon begin to steer the Pirates in the same direction as Cam Bonifay and David Littlefield took them......

 

I thought two years was a fairly safe offer. Best-case scenario is he plays himself into a longer, more lucrative deal elsewhere. Worst-case scenario is the Dodgers are done with him at the end of 2009.

Of course, him showing up at 550 lbs and getting placed on the DL due to general suckiness is worse than the worst-case scenario. But still, I'd rather have Andruw Jones than Barry Zito, b/c a.) there's a chance the Dodgers could trade him to someone willing to take a chance over the winter and b.) well, if not, he's gone in a year-and-a-half anyway.

 

Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier were likely to have better seasons than Jones this year. It just seemed kind of redundant to bring in Jones when you had Kemp and Ethier in the fold.

But LA can afford to blow $20 million (or whatever ungodly contract it was). Just like NY can blow whatever the fuck the spent on Kei Igawa (and Boston on Julio Lugo).

And it's why the Rockies are fucked because they blew money on Helton. Sometimes I hate baseball.

 

Minaya took over a team that was 20 games under in 2004, and two years later they were Game 7 of the NLCS. You can criticize him for what's happened since then, but the Mets haven't gone in the toilet like, say the Mariners. Minaya's made more bad moves than good ones lately, but given the Mets' record since he took over, to say he's the worst GM out there is just absurd.

 

Can I nominate Randy Smith in the throwback worst GM category?

 

Clearly, you ignored one obvious candidate - Jon Daniels of Texas.

 

Explain in detail how Williams could be on that list. Run down his trades and signings and you'll find way, way more hits than misses...