Another Year For Ricciardi

What a joke. The Jays are packin it in already. I wonder if JP will try and sign Adam Dunn this offseason.

jays2010 is exactly the kind of fish ricciardi likes to hook and dangle in front of his bosses: "We can compete against the Yankees-Bosox"
add in the annual delusional wins in september and it's "see how close we are?" all over again
of course paul godfrey re-ups/endorses jp. that's because he brought the guy in and needs to save face. (face - and hair - is all that godfrey has, because there's relatively little substance)
also, it's really not about ricciardi's baseball acumen anymore. it's his perception among the canadian baseball public. trust me, the jays are by no means "canada's team"
reality or not, jp radiates a condescending arrogance - like how could us igloo-living hockey-pucks have any clue about the finer points of his game.
this – again, not baseball knowledge – is what makes him seem like a pompous asshole.

Tim I'm curious on what your thoughts are on what the Jays could get for Halladay if he was delt.

The Idea was brought up again by Jeff Blair.

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I was thinking the Rockies could be a good trading Partner if it were to ever happen. Stewart and Jimenez or something a long those lines.

It's not like Ricciardi has done THAT bad of a job, compared to his predecessors. He's made the team more competitive, although that could have been as a result of higher payroll.

I think the only things that would be a knock on JP are his draft picks (that whole Moneyball thing is done, I tell you) and retaining Gibbons far longer than he should have.

He's signed:
- Burnett (even though he's been hurt quite a bit, he HAS delivered, considering how much he's getting paid)
- Overbay (He was a great contact hitter when he was signed, although I think age has started to catch up to him)
- Glaus/Rolen (Although Rolen has been a little disappointing offensively)
- Got Rios and Wells to sign their extension (Although Wells is starting to get overpaid, they were paying him as their best player, and he was coming off his best season)
- BJ Ryan (ask any scout, when he's healthy, he has the stuff to be a top 5 closer, not to mention they pried him away from a division rival)

So no, I don't think Ricciardi is as bad as people think he is. It's that damn middle infield problem, Lilly/Hillenbrand-Gibbons fiasco, drafting college arms over potential (no one will ever let him live down that Romero over Tulo pick), keeping Gibbons longer than he should have, and the Adum Dunn public diss that has become a knock against him.

"I think the only things that would be a knock on JP are his draft picks (that whole Moneyball thing is done, I tell you) and retaining Gibbons far longer than he should have."
-Bleedinblue

Where have you been? He had 3 terrible drafts and then they figured out what was going on and have actually been picking wisely the last 3 years (or so it appears so far).
I don't want to be a JP apologist, but if you throw out the fact we could have had Troy Tulowizki (who hasn't been nearly as good as last year anyway) instead of Ricky Romero (who still might do something) then he's done okay in drafts.

Also - I think you need to be more clear what you mean when you say "moneyball" - if you mean finding exploiting market inefficiencies, then the term still has some currency- if you mean "drafting low-ceiling college kids" then you can just say that and not conflate the two things.