It’s nice to see that people haven’t entirely forgotten about the Expos. They were a good organization that got screwed over by MLB. And if it wasn’t for a court ruling that required the Twins to finish their lease in the Metrodome, the Twins and Expos would have been contracted together in 2002. It’s hard to imagine, these days.
goner
agreed… in many respects, the Expos were the biggest casualty of the 1994 strike.
WolandJR
Blah blah blah, I was a scout, blah blah, I invented the vORP, blah blah, Matt Stairs needs a cane, blah blah blah, my team is going to lose 95 games… but next year, I swear we will be respectable.
— Mike Rizzo
wickedkevin
cool story bro.
baseball33
Does anyone know what happened when Minaya went to the Mets and didn’t exactly have the same kind of player development success as he had with the Expos. I mean what happened. I read certain things in the past about this but I can’t really remember them.
comish4lif
Minaya didn’t have any player development success with the Expos.
Dave Dombroski, Dan DuQuette, Kevin Malone and Jim Beattie were the GMs throughout the 90’s and drafted all of those great Expos players.
Minaya was a hatchet man hired by MLB. He traded Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee and Brandon Phillips for Bartolo Colon. He also traded Jason Bay for Lou Collier.
baseball33
After further review I think a better question might be what did the Expos do to produce so much talent? Who was really responsible or did they just get lucky?
Josh Stuart
I’d like to meet the department of sabermatricians who think the Werth contract is a good idea.
WhiteSoxHomer
I laughed so hard I cried.
bigsulls
“…veteran mentors won’t take at-bats away from prospects.”
Oh so no prospect at-bats were lost last night when Jerry Hairston and Alex Cora started instead of Ian Desmond and Danny Espinosa….got it.
Comments for this post have been closed by the site administrator.
PostMoBills
It’s nice to see that people haven’t entirely forgotten about the Expos. They were a good organization that got screwed over by MLB. And if it wasn’t for a court ruling that required the Twins to finish their lease in the Metrodome, the Twins and Expos would have been contracted together in 2002. It’s hard to imagine, these days.
goner
agreed… in many respects, the Expos were the biggest casualty of the 1994 strike.
WolandJR
Blah blah blah, I was a scout, blah blah, I invented the vORP, blah blah, Matt Stairs needs a cane, blah blah blah, my team is going to lose 95 games… but next year, I swear we will be respectable.
— Mike Rizzo
wickedkevin
cool story bro.
baseball33
Does anyone know what happened when Minaya went to the Mets and didn’t exactly have the same kind of player development success as he had with the Expos. I mean what happened. I read certain things in the past about this but I can’t really remember them.
comish4lif
Minaya didn’t have any player development success with the Expos.
Dave Dombroski, Dan DuQuette, Kevin Malone and Jim Beattie were the GMs throughout the 90’s and drafted all of those great Expos players.
Minaya was a hatchet man hired by MLB. He traded Grady Sizemore, Cliff Lee and Brandon Phillips for Bartolo Colon. He also traded Jason Bay for Lou Collier.
baseball33
After further review I think a better question might be what did the Expos do to produce so much talent? Who was really responsible or did they just get lucky?
Josh Stuart
I’d like to meet the department of sabermatricians who think the Werth contract is a good idea.
WhiteSoxHomer
I laughed so hard I cried.
bigsulls
“…veteran mentors won’t take at-bats away from prospects.”
Oh so no prospect at-bats were lost last night when Jerry Hairston and Alex Cora started instead of Ian Desmond and Danny Espinosa….got it.