07-13-2010, 11:12 AM
KB I kind of agree with you. I do in a sense feel badly for him with his big money guys playing like shit. Z, Lee, Ramirez have been terrible, and even though Soriano is better than last year, an $18 million player doesn't hit in the .260s and .270s.
I guess I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say that what he paid for Z at the time was market value, but sense that season he has been mediocre at best. Highly volatile and simply not effective. I was at opening day this year in ATL and he just looked like a bad pitcher. Fat ball after fat gopher ball. Nothing to it. For any of us to sit back and say he would implode like this would be bullshit, but I think that a lot of the backlash on Hendry is that Z has gone to rock bottom and has one of the highest salaries on the team and in baseball. His fault or not, Hendry tied himself to Z with that contract, as well as with Soriano and his contract. Neither have delivered the value we all expected. There is where many fans are disgusted with Hendry.
His more savvy signings over the year (and trades) probably outweigh the bad contracts...but the fact that the top two bad contracts have so severly backfired is a black eye for him and management overall. And that is where a lot of the backlash comes from. I am all for change in a huge way when the year is over (and hell fire Lou for all I care now), but let's sit back and see if Hendry can pull any sweet moves off selling our pieces for the rest of the year.
I guess I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say that what he paid for Z at the time was market value, but sense that season he has been mediocre at best. Highly volatile and simply not effective. I was at opening day this year in ATL and he just looked like a bad pitcher. Fat ball after fat gopher ball. Nothing to it. For any of us to sit back and say he would implode like this would be bullshit, but I think that a lot of the backlash on Hendry is that Z has gone to rock bottom and has one of the highest salaries on the team and in baseball. His fault or not, Hendry tied himself to Z with that contract, as well as with Soriano and his contract. Neither have delivered the value we all expected. There is where many fans are disgusted with Hendry.
His more savvy signings over the year (and trades) probably outweigh the bad contracts...but the fact that the top two bad contracts have so severly backfired is a black eye for him and management overall. And that is where a lot of the backlash comes from. I am all for change in a huge way when the year is over (and hell fire Lou for all I care now), but let's sit back and see if Hendry can pull any sweet moves off selling our pieces for the rest of the year.
Dylan McKay is my hero