I agree, JP has gotten the Jays some decent utility players, such as the trade that got the Jays Jeremy Accardo for Shea Hillenbrand.
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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Riccardi has made some decent moves. I'll give him credit where credit is due, he is able to manufacture a half decent bullpen from virtually nothing (downs). He has done a solid job in that respect. He also manages to pull some decent retreads/utility players away from other teams and make them pretty useful (Scutaro).
But it ends there.
Most of his "big money" signings have been disasters. Thomas, Wells, Koskie, Ryan. In 3 of those cases (well soon to be 4 if we ever decide to get rid of Wells, he has had to eat a good deal of the contract). 2 of those players were DFA'd and one was paid 7.5 million over 2 years to play for another team.
Fiscal mismanagement like that has crippled the Jays hopes to compete. Investing the the WRONG players.
Of course that is only a tiny portion of why I dislike the guy, but I don't really feel like writing my usual 10 pager on it tonight.
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