08-04-2009, 02:03 PM
<!--quoteo(post=55494:date=Aug 4 2009, 01:24 PM:name=veryzer)-->QUOTE (veryzer @ Aug 4 2009, 01:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->i think hendry had a bad offseason, but he's had good ones too, so shit happens i guess. i think lou doesn't get nearly enough credit for what he's done.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Agreed. But the thing about Hendry this off season is that he has made some real strange moves, seemingly out of line for someone who is building a contender. The Bradley move wasn't all that odd overall (he signed a FA who had a monster year); the DeRosa one more questionable based on the return haul. But the bigger flashing lights at the time were the decisions to trade Wuertz (yes, he was cheaper than, say, letting Vizcaino go, but hey that happened anyway) and to keep Patton--a AA reliever Rule 5 draftee on a team expected to compete--on the 25-man roster. These moves to me are far riskier than, oh, I don't know, calling a squeeze with the bases juiced.
Not that I want to open that argument back up. It's just that some of these moves are so strangely awful that you wonder if Hendry was some additional comprimising position beyond the sale of the team. Maybe Patton had pictures of Big Jim smoking Yosh Kawano's pole.
Agreed. But the thing about Hendry this off season is that he has made some real strange moves, seemingly out of line for someone who is building a contender. The Bradley move wasn't all that odd overall (he signed a FA who had a monster year); the DeRosa one more questionable based on the return haul. But the bigger flashing lights at the time were the decisions to trade Wuertz (yes, he was cheaper than, say, letting Vizcaino go, but hey that happened anyway) and to keep Patton--a AA reliever Rule 5 draftee on a team expected to compete--on the 25-man roster. These moves to me are far riskier than, oh, I don't know, calling a squeeze with the bases juiced.
Not that I want to open that argument back up. It's just that some of these moves are so strangely awful that you wonder if Hendry was some additional comprimising position beyond the sale of the team. Maybe Patton had pictures of Big Jim smoking Yosh Kawano's pole.
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