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Worst GM ever?
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 6:10 am
by treyZz
Has to be Jim Hendry.
What a disaster he has built in Chicago. Talk about a freaking train wreck.
$300m in the offseason and the team is worse than last year.. I didn't think that was possible, but Hendry has found a way yet again. How do you spend $300m and make a 67 win team worse?
There is no doubt in my mind that he's the worst GM baseball has ever seen.. I don't think anyone could make me believe otherwise.
Anyways, who in your opinion is the worse GM ever?
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 7:53 am
by bigboy1234
Theres a guy in Seattle who begs to differ.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:57 am
by PhilipNelsonFan
bigboy1234 wrote:Theres a guy in Seattle who begs to differ.
And he'll trade Richie Sexson and Brandon Morrow for Ted Lilly to do so.
Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 9:31 am
by GYBE
Jim Hendry simply has no plan whatsoever. He makes countless moves ranging from "alright" to "bad", but most are at least somewhat defensible. But they all don't make sense, there's no cohesiveness to them and he has a team built for a videogame instead of an actual baseball team.
The Soriano situation is a good example. Last year the Cubs biggest problem was getting on base, they ranked last. The
only position with depth is corner outfielder. Soriano literally was the opposite of our needs. And batting him first just negates his only real value (slugging). An incredible waste of money that Hendry felt he had to spend after missing out on targets from past years who would have been MUCH better fits (Tejada, Beltran specifically).
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:24 am
by Icness
Who was the Mensa in Colorado who decided that they needed an OF full of singles hitters and overrated, injury-prone curveballers as SPs back in the early 00s?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:51 am
by meatball sub
Dave Littlefield in Pittsburgh gets my vote. How does your team NEVER improve since you've been running the operation? You play in a division that is one of the weaker divisions in baseball year in and year out and still no improvement. HE'S TUUUUURRIBLE!!!!!! TUUUUUUUUURRIBLE!!!!!
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:33 pm
by BS007
Steve Phillips? Kazmir for Victor Zambrano!
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:33 pm
by Basketball Jesus
Again, Jim Duquette.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:35 pm
by BS007
Basketball Jesus wrote:Again, Jim Duquette.
Man, thats like twice in the last minute were you have pwned me on the same topic
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 1:37 pm
by Basketball Jesus
It
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 2:31 pm
by Ex-hippie
Was it Dan Evans who ran the Dodgers during the Rupert Murdoch era? After spending like $200 million on Kevin Brown and Darren Dreifort, he has to be up there on any list of awful GMs.
Also, Syd Thrift was doing similarly bad things in Baltimore around the same time.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:01 pm
by Basketball Jesus
I remember Kevin Malone being somewhat of a dimwit as Dodgers
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:01 pm
by mets87
jim duquette or steve phillips, can't decide which
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:48 pm
by Ex-hippie
Basketball Jesus wrote:I remember Kevin Malone being somewhat of a dimwit as Dodgers
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:53 pm
by Basketball Jesus
Like the Mets, the Dodgers had a string of morons running the show during the late 1990s-early 2000s. They all tend to blend together after a while. The difference being that the Mets finally have someone competent running the team.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 4:53 pm
by Basketball Jesus
Isn't Evans with the Mariners now?
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:58 pm
by Ex-hippie
Indeed he is, working as an
executive scout, whatever that means. Says here that he was hired by LA in October 2000. The Dreifort signing
happend in December 2000, so that was on Evans' watch; but the Kevin Brown signing
took place in 1998, on Malone's watch. So they share responsibility.
At first, Ned Colletti looked like he would be a good GM, but the Juan Pierre signing made me rethink that. I wish they had given DePodesta more of a chance. He made one unpopular trade -- Paul LoDuca, Juan Encarnacion and Guillermo Mota for Brad Penny and Hee-Sop Choi (which, by the way, doesn't look like a bad move now) -- and was driven out of town for it.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:24 pm
by Basketball Jesus
DePo was somewhat of an intellecutal introvert and, because of it, came off as somewhat of a dick publicly. While that style plays well on the east coast, he really wasn
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 7:51 pm
by Ex-hippie
Basketball Jesus wrote:clubhouse leader be damned.
And that's what separates you, me and DePo (hey, wasn't that a movie last summer?) from 90% of Dodger fans. Groan.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:51 am
by treyZz
ONLY Jim Hendry can spend $300m in an offseason and make a 66 win team worse.
Cubs 6 games under .500 about to be 7 with the way this 1 is going. I've never seen a team look so hopeless.
EDIT: And they're clearly playing in the worst division in baseball.