12-17-2009, 04:11 PM
<!--quoteo(post=72049:date=Dec 17 2009, 02:08 PM:name=KBwsb)-->QUOTE (KBwsb @ Dec 17 2009, 02:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Butch, do you think the "Dempster for $52 Million" was a good signing?
As far as Jim being a good trader: the Aramis and DLee transactions were not "trades," they were salary dumps. For instance, at the time of the trade, Choi had a $350,000 contract, and Lee had a $21 <i>million</i> dollar contract. That is not a straight-up trade. That is a salary dump.
Still, as the GM of a huge-money team, it's Jim's job to clean out the low-revenue teams, so I still consider these great deals, and wish he had pulled another one off if the ensuing <i>six</i> years.
As many have said, Jim has his positives, but his biggest negative (by far) is his misunderstanding of how to outlay salary/budget. His biggest positive is that he engenders good feeling amongst his MLB players, and thus we got Z and Aramis on slightly discounted long-term deals.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The Dempster contract wasn't good at all -- but it happened seemingly miliseconds before the market collapsed. It wasn't good before the market changed, but it looks a lot worse now than it would have. Some of that is bad luck.
Putting Dempster under the "good" column refers to the original pickup (one of Hendry's many reclamation projects).
As far as the salary dump issue...yeah -- if the Pirates and Marlins could afford those players, then they wouldn't be trading them. That's a no-brainer. But Hendry snapped those guys up -- no other GM out there did. He still gets points for making those deals.
As far as Jim being a good trader: the Aramis and DLee transactions were not "trades," they were salary dumps. For instance, at the time of the trade, Choi had a $350,000 contract, and Lee had a $21 <i>million</i> dollar contract. That is not a straight-up trade. That is a salary dump.
Still, as the GM of a huge-money team, it's Jim's job to clean out the low-revenue teams, so I still consider these great deals, and wish he had pulled another one off if the ensuing <i>six</i> years.
As many have said, Jim has his positives, but his biggest negative (by far) is his misunderstanding of how to outlay salary/budget. His biggest positive is that he engenders good feeling amongst his MLB players, and thus we got Z and Aramis on slightly discounted long-term deals.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The Dempster contract wasn't good at all -- but it happened seemingly miliseconds before the market collapsed. It wasn't good before the market changed, but it looks a lot worse now than it would have. Some of that is bad luck.
Putting Dempster under the "good" column refers to the original pickup (one of Hendry's many reclamation projects).
As far as the salary dump issue...yeah -- if the Pirates and Marlins could afford those players, then they wouldn't be trading them. That's a no-brainer. But Hendry snapped those guys up -- no other GM out there did. He still gets points for making those deals.