11-24-2009, 09:10 AM
<!--quoteo(post=70091:date=Nov 24 2009, 06:20 AM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ Nov 24 2009, 06:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <!--quotec-->You make a reasonable point that none of us are really "in the know" when it comes to the behind the scenes dealings of a GM. However, I think the fact that there are many examples of JH offering too much for too long that trumps the argument. Fact is, JH frequently gives to much and too many and it has hurt the team's financial flexibility.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm not sure what exact argument you are making here. Are you saying that Hendry has paid too much for free agents during his tenure? OK, I totally agree with that. However that is the nature of free agency. FA's are almost always paid too much. By every GM out there. Not just Hendry. Furthermore, when Hendry does NOT pay too much for a Free Agent, as was the case with Lilly, ARam, and ironically enough Marquis, he doesn't get any credit.
If you are arguing not that Hendry has made mistakes, but has signed free agents (regardless of how good or bad they are) to UNNECESSARILY large contracts, contracts that are bigger than they need to be because there is no competition, I will continue to tell you that you most likely have no clue what the competition was.
Those are 2 entirely separate arguments. In can be pretty well concluded that Bradley was a bad signing. It cannot in any way shape or form be concluded that it was an unnecessarily large contract due to a lack of other bidders, because we don't have any idea who the other bidders were, or what their offers consisted of.
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One of the problems with Hendry is that he pays too much (in dollars and years) for replacement-level players. Most GMs understand the concept that you don't pay a Neifi Perez/Aaron Miles/Glendon Rusch type of player millions of dollars a year for multiple years when you can usually get the same type of player for league minimum out of your farm system or for extremely cheap off the FA scrap heap. That's a fault of Hendry's that drives me bananas -- and he continues to make the same mistake.
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->It cannot in any way shape or form be concluded that it was an unnecessarily large contract due to a lack of other bidders, because we don't have any idea who the other bidders were, or what their offers consisted of.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You can't look at Bradley's injury history and conclude that most GMs wouldn't be willing to give out a multi-season contract to a guy like that? Throw in his total insanity, and I don't think the conclusion is that crazy. This doesn't require research. This doesn't require a formal survey of all GMs in baseball. All this requires is a little common sense.
Do we KNOW, for certain that there weren't other 3-year deals out there? No -- we'll never know that kind of inside information. But I'm going to assume (again, based on Milty's history), that there weren't a whole lot of multi-year offers on the table for him and that Jim fucked up.
I'm not sure what exact argument you are making here. Are you saying that Hendry has paid too much for free agents during his tenure? OK, I totally agree with that. However that is the nature of free agency. FA's are almost always paid too much. By every GM out there. Not just Hendry. Furthermore, when Hendry does NOT pay too much for a Free Agent, as was the case with Lilly, ARam, and ironically enough Marquis, he doesn't get any credit.
If you are arguing not that Hendry has made mistakes, but has signed free agents (regardless of how good or bad they are) to UNNECESSARILY large contracts, contracts that are bigger than they need to be because there is no competition, I will continue to tell you that you most likely have no clue what the competition was.
Those are 2 entirely separate arguments. In can be pretty well concluded that Bradley was a bad signing. It cannot in any way shape or form be concluded that it was an unnecessarily large contract due to a lack of other bidders, because we don't have any idea who the other bidders were, or what their offers consisted of.
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One of the problems with Hendry is that he pays too much (in dollars and years) for replacement-level players. Most GMs understand the concept that you don't pay a Neifi Perez/Aaron Miles/Glendon Rusch type of player millions of dollars a year for multiple years when you can usually get the same type of player for league minimum out of your farm system or for extremely cheap off the FA scrap heap. That's a fault of Hendry's that drives me bananas -- and he continues to make the same mistake.
<!--quoteo-->QUOTE <!--quotec-->It cannot in any way shape or form be concluded that it was an unnecessarily large contract due to a lack of other bidders, because we don't have any idea who the other bidders were, or what their offers consisted of.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You can't look at Bradley's injury history and conclude that most GMs wouldn't be willing to give out a multi-season contract to a guy like that? Throw in his total insanity, and I don't think the conclusion is that crazy. This doesn't require research. This doesn't require a formal survey of all GMs in baseball. All this requires is a little common sense.
Do we KNOW, for certain that there weren't other 3-year deals out there? No -- we'll never know that kind of inside information. But I'm going to assume (again, based on Milty's history), that there weren't a whole lot of multi-year offers on the table for him and that Jim fucked up.