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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
This is debatable.
When in charge of the Expos (which was a screwed up situation) he traded Grady Sizemore, Brandon Phillips and Cliff Lee for Bartolo Colon.
He also traded Jason Bay for Lou Collier.
Then there was Javier Vasquez for Nick Johnson, Juan Rivera and Randy Choate.
Cliff Floyd for Sun-Woo Kim and Seung Song.
Orlando Cabrara for Brendan Harris and Alex Gonzalez.
As a Met GM he has made a few marginally good deals
Getting Lo Duca for bit players was ok. The Delgado trade was a salary dump by the Marlins but was ok. Getting John Maine for Kris Benson was very good. As was getting El Duque for Julio.
But there was the three week period in 06 when he basically gave away heath Bell, Matt Lindstrom and Brian Bannister.
And he did sign Luis Castillo to a high dollar contract.
So I would tend to be a little pessimistic on his doing something positive
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I agree. What i meant to say was he is smart enough to get something done. You forgot about the Perez- Nady trade, that one turned out great. And the whole Kazmir thing. But he isn't the worst. Getting rid of Nolan Ryan is right up there.