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Originally Posted by fleury
Man I'm glad the Lincecum deal didn't go through...it would have bought 3 more years for Riccardi.
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It is puzzling when Ricciardi was hired, it was thought that since he was with the Oakland As' and Billy Beane was his boss and friend, J P was supposed to bring with him the knowledge and practice of sabermetric principles (the algorithms behind Money Ball). Instead JP gave out crazy contracts that overvalued players and overpaid them. He did have some good signings and some bad ones. Bautista was a good acquisition and B J Ryan's contract, Overbay, Wells, etc were bad ones.