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?
Worst GM ever?
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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).
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).
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Man, thats like twice in the last minute were you have pwned me on the same topic-
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I remember Kevin Malone being somewhat of a dimwit as Dodgers
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
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