Spiderdan22 wrote:Sorry, but no manager should be calling their personnel out in public...oh but I forgot, you Shatkins lovers think he can do no wrong. They've already taken a top 6 team and run it into the ground in two years...can't wait to watch them blow the rebuild too. You never heard Gillick calling out his players publicly. Now there's a respected GM.
I honestly think this is much ado about nothing both ways. I don't see this as some sort of great or terrible move. And while I'm open to considering all potential angles, you're making a pretty awful case for yours. Personally, I'm waiting to see what the team actually does with any of the players involved before I judge anything. Talk is largely irrelevant in the end.
Taken a top 6 team and run it into the ground? No, they've got a solid farm and some players starting to filter up. In fact, the only part of what they've done that might constitute running the team into the ground is hang on to the framework of that former top 6 team and held on to it for too long. They were never going to trade those guys for younger stars and those guys were always going to get worse fast and no amount of selling off prospects was going to turn the team back into a top 6 team with so many aging players turning into pumpkins so fast. AA built a good team with a self-destruct timer built in and lots of massive salaries. This is the natural result. And really, short of trading Donaldson sooner, there isn't much I can see that was poorly strategized so far. Sure, I'd have rather gotten better prospects in trades but other teams aren't lining up to give those away so easily and thankfully the Jays aren't, either.
