Ned Colletti: GM Trade History

My god, he's terrible.

Ethier and Manny (which was mainly McCourt), and that's it. :o

Colletti should just delete Friedman's number and email from his contact list. It just doesn't work out well for him.

After looking at this, I am wondering why some still think this guy deserves more time.

Butbutbutbut statheads are awesome... :(

I don't see much of the backlash against Colletti from this trade list. I would say that he came out better on:

1. Ethier
2. Maddux (the first time)
3. Proctor (arguable)
4. Manny

I would say that he's come out worse on:
1. Duaner Sanchez
2. Cody Ross
3. Blake for Meloan/Santana (which still depends on how both prospects develop)

Both Sanchez and Ross are pretty fringy. The rest of the trades are mostly lateral moves or involve players who didn't make much of an impact for either team.

Now, the trade history obviously doesn't cover Colletti's boneheaded free agent signings, which is where he deserves the most blame. However, in a vacuum, the trade history isn't terrible and probably a plus for Colletti.

NedCollettiClueless I held out way too long thinking Colletti would get it right...but I admit your right...he is a !#@ing idiot and needs to go. His trade history is okay but his choice in free agents is killing this team.

Our pitching is fourth best in the league behind SF, ARI, and SD, our offense is the better than anyone elses minus Manny and one of the best in the NL with. But are we really expecting to compete with a rotation of
1. Bills (young and good but ready to be the ace?
2. Kuroda (not yet fully established but a solid #3)
3. Wolf (good pick up if healthy this time around
4. Kershay (first full season in the bigs
5. ??Shmidts a joke, McDondal is supposedly in the pen, Stults is a good spot starter, Trancoso didnt fully cut it as a reliever...and seriously Estes or Vargas?

You can't just look at Colletti's trades in the view of the present. You need to look at the value of all the pieces at the time of the trade. It's only then that you see how horrible he is.

Duaner Sanchez, Joel Guzman, Dioner Novarro, Jon Meloan and Carlos Santana all had tremendous value at the time of their trades. Colletti managed to get back absolutely nothing worth keeping in any of those trades. He has depleted the talent level of the farm system without replacing it with any value.
He's horrible in trading value at the time of each trade. If not for Logan White, I fear Colletti would trade away everyone that has ANY value for Omar Vizquel.

What would we get if we trade Lambo, DeJesus, Elbert or McDonald or a combo of them?
Scott Baker?
Roy Oswalt?
Jake Peavy?

Just goes to show you how raw a deal Dan Evans received from the Dodgers and teh McCourt regime. Seriously, for a guy who learned under the great Brian Sabean, is thsi really a surprise?

Ah Colletti, you made one fine trade, and basically traded away much of our talent for players like Seo, Hendrickson, Baez, and Lugo.

Can you imagine if we still had guys like Jackson, Duaner Sanchez (give the guy a break - he had a freak taxi accident...other than that he has been a solid set-up guy over the years), Joel Guzman, Navarro, Meloan and Santana. Granted Navarro was traded when he was injured and being replaced by Martin, but the other guys are no excuse trades.

"Our pitching is fourth best in the league behind SF, ARI, and SD, our offense is the better than anyone elses minus Manny and one of the best in the NL with."

What? Better than who exactly? LA's offense last year was 4th worst in the NL.

btw phills, he was talking post manny(over 1/2 run better) and the playoffs

Quick clarification on my previous post, before someone says "Matt Holliday was a short term need". The A's sold high on Smith (horrible peripherals) and got fair value for Street.

If a team is going to trade off a surplus, they still need to make sure that they're getting proper/fair value for the player(s) they're trading away. Something Colletti hasn't done.

Good:
Bradley for Ethier
LaRoche/Morris for Ramirez
Both Maddux deals
Blake signing
Both Furcal signings
Kuroda signing
Drafting Kershaw
Bringing in Joe Torre

Bad:
Trading Santana and Meloan for Blake (this could easily get ugly, depending on how the two pan-out)

Ugly:
Juan Pierre signing
Andruw Jones signing
Jason Schmidt signing

He really hasn't had any terrible trades, he has just swung and missed on three HUGE free agent deals. That Santana/Meloan deal could be seen as terrible for half a season of Blake..

Sure, they would've had to have been traded *eventually*, but that doesn't mean they had to be traded FOR THOSE PACKAGES AT THOSE TIMES. Texas has a surplus of catchers. Does that mean they're dumping them for nothing? No. Oakland and Tampa Bay both have a TON of young pitching depth (Tampa Bay has much more at the MLB level though). Do you see them selling off arms to fill short-term needs? No. Cleveland had 2 catchers this season. What did they do? Trade FOR a third catcher.

Navarro, Jackson, and Santana were easily top 100 prospects at the time of trade. And where did you see the reports from scouts that said that Santana would probably have to move from catcher. I've heard the opposite. And Meloan has the potential to be an elite relief arm. As in closer

i agree with you colleti shouldnt be the dodgers GM, it should be white or Ng. there were reports from this site and a dodgers scout(top 10 or 15 prospects after last year, sorry no link, it was a while ago) saying that Santana will probably have to move to 1st, cause his D/ gamecalling isn't very good. Meloan im not going to say i know alot about him, all i know is he had been in some big packages(peavy) and was traded for blake. I wish colleti would have payed 2m or so and just give up meloan or santana and use the other either in the bigs or in a bigger trade. if either meloan or santana was for Manny, i could see that, but not blake