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Douglas Rau
Were those deals all made by the same Arizona GM? How many deals do you get to swing and miss on as a GM before you’re let go?
Robbie Massey
Why do you think we brought in La Russa to oversee things? Because Towers is too trade happy
vonjunk
Trade happy is fine, so long as your team gets real value back (this value can be present or future). Towers tends to trade for middle of career middling players, who cost a lot. Then, he extends them. The Dbacks would have been better had Towers never come to town. Just staying with their young players gives them a team that is better than the one now, almost no cost and with loads of upside.
The only move Towers came through is his extension for Goldschmidt.
Ray Ray 4
I disagree about the winner of the three team deal. I think the real winner of that deal was the Reds. Bauer might turn into an ace, but at this point that is still just MIGHT. Cleveland could have won the division (and possibly the World Series) with Shin-Soo Choo instead of Drew Stubbs in 2013. The Reds got to the playoffs with him and got the #29 pick Alex Blandino this year as a compensatory pick.
kungfucampby
Cleveland wasn’t winning the division in 2013. I know, I know, one game back. But Detroit sat all their guys the last week of the season.
Ray Ray 4
Detroit has lost games when they play everyone before. At the very least there was a better chance of beating the Rays in the Wild Card game with him instead of Stubbs.
Franklin Brown
So, basically, we still need to fire Kevin Towers. Got it.
vonjunk
Yes. How has he lasted so long?
Ray Ray 4
Most of the NL West just doesn’t understand how the GM position is supposed to work. That is why the Padres made really good trades without a GM this week and why Dan O’Dowd has been the Rockies GM since 1999 despite only 4 winning seasons (2 of those were barely over .500) in 15 years.