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Mortimer...your analysis was almost dead on perfect I believe...excellent job. (As always I think you're just a bit too hard on here's Jhonny. although a problem, he is far, far, far from the top one this year.)

And what was a bad offseason for Shapiro you highlighted all his blunders, you still have to give him some credit for getting 3 all-star caliber players for Colon (Lee, Sizemore, PHillips, although as you stated the PHillips subsequent blunder downgraded that great trade somewhat) and the Perez for Cabrera trade could still end up being an all-time steal once Asdrubal gets his stroke back and is playing shortstop...which will happen. (you could credit that trade I think by Shapiro to getting them to post season last year as the second he was put into the starting lineup, they started to win a LOT.) Here's Jhonny could still end up helping the team at 3rd base.

Although the Hafner scenario was quite predictable as he was not any good last year, the Martinez one was not, and the Betancourt implosion was certainly not predictable. Dellucci/Michaels was always a disaster as was Borowski as was Byrd, and as you always state given a choice of two guys hitting .220 why on earth wouldn't you play the stellar fielding Gutierrez every single day over Dellucci??