The Dodgers and GM Ned Colletti have agreed to a contract extension, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com. The two sides have been discussing an extension lately and his current deal included mutual options beyond 2012. The new agreement is a multiyear deal, perhaps as many as three years according to Heyman.
Colletti has been at the Dodgers' helm since November 2005. The team has gone 586-530 under his watch, thrice winning the NL West and never winning fewer than 80 games in a season. They advanced to the NLCS in both 2008 and 2009. He survived the Frank McCourt ownership fallout, and the new Stan Kasten and Magic Johnson led ownership group showed no indications that they were considering a switch at GM.
Our Transaction Tracker shows all of Colletti's moves as Dodgers GM, the second of which is acquiring Andre Ethier from the Athletics. Other notable moves including hiring manager Joe Torre, acquiring Greg Maddux, signing Hiroki Kuroda, extending Matt Kemp, and acquiring Adrian Gonzalez. Clayton Kershaw was also drafted under Colletti's watch.
no suprise there
Paul DePodesta was a better GM. Giving Manny Ramirez $45 million for 2 years was another notable Colletti move.
PDP is much better SUPPORTING GM’s like he is now and was was before.
Ugh. He’s not a very good GM. I’ll give him Kuroda but other than that he’s hasn’t done much well. Ethier was more about getting rid of Milton Bradley, just a bonus that he’s been so good. Ned has taken advantage of malcontents with Manny, Hanley, and Gonzalez. His free agent signings up until this year have been terrible. Hopefully he’s turning a corner. All things considered I’d give him a C/C-, nowhere near good but not the worst.
For all the hate that he gets, I’m sorta surprised hes never won less than 80 games in 6 years as a GM.
He’s not terrible, he’s just mediocre. A great organization like the Dodgers deserves so much better. With that in mind, he is better at his job than Kevin Malone.
Pulls off two monster trades in a few weeks and he’s still mediocre? yeah, we know this team is terrible right now but that doesn’t change the scale of what he accomplished in a short time.
The Marlins and the Sox were both desperate to dump those players. IMO he gave up a bit much to acquire those players from the sox. He gave up a few decent players and took on 3 big contracts and only $10M.
And the Dodger got them. This is what actually matters. When Colletti was working on poverty budgets to sign players, fans complained about that, even though the results were actually pretty good (think Carroll, Ellis, Capuano, etc.). Now that he’s got big money behind him he gets no credit for trading for players that nobody at the time assumed were available. You can say now that the Sox were desperate to move Gonzales, but in reality that trade wasn’t on anybody’s radar until about a day before it happened.
He’s terrible. Look at who he’s drafted in 7 years; look at free agents he’s signed to multi-year deals. No bueno, even with awful ownership
“Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!”
Not happy with this. I haven’t been a Colletti supporter for sometime and was hoping the new ownership would be with me on this. I was looking forward to getting some new blood in the GM seat when the new owners took over, but the Dodgers are stuck with mediocrity running the show for a few more years. Before I get flamed by die hard Dodger supporters lets break down some moves since I have some time to kill.
Lets start with free agents…Jason Schmidt (3yrs $47m), Andruw Jones (2yrs $36m), Juan Pierre (5 yrs $55m), Juan Uribe (3 yrs $21m) aside from bringing Kuroda in there isnt any success to hang you hat on, unless youre a big Jamey Carrol fan.
Trades…well kind of a mix bag. A lot I still scratch my head but you can argue he has an ok track record here. Yes, the Either trade has worked out extremely well, and the Manny trade did a lot of good for the team, however the extension he signed him to after knocks things down a bit. Then you consider the Casey Blake trade where Carlos Santana was sent of so a few $ could be saved. The deal sending Edwin Jackson away for Danny Baez looks bad, even though it took EJax sometime to really figure things out, same thing with Cody Ross. Octavio Dotel for Andrew Lambo and James McDonald still lingers with me, and then there is the deal sending Trayvon Robinson out for Tim Federowicz and a few more pieces really just confused the hell out of me. The problem with most of these deals is that he gives up on guys when they have some trouble adapting to the big leagues along with panicing when he feels he needs to make an upgrade at certain position. This year is prolly what landed him the extension. The Hanley deal looks like a win for him while the deal with the Red Sox is gonna be career defining if it wasnt already. I see the logic in taking the AGon $ and Beckett was addressing a need they need to fill, but they take on Crawfords contract which has the look of Vernon Wells 2.0 and even though I think if Crawford gets healthy his game will translate well in Dodger stadium, he took a lot of money on while giving up some pretty nice prospects.
All in all I am optimistic that Kasten and Co. will keep some of the blunders down in the future, but given Colletti’s previous history, was he deserving of an extension? I think not.