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Originally Posted by GirlySports
You're thinking of it as a pure baseball strategy. But you see the fan backlash today. You may dismiss it as short-sighted and stupid and that's what it is. That's the fanbase.
AA can't win every trade, he can't be purely baseball all the time.
Sometimes he has to give up something to get something. They can't all be Rasmus type trades. And in this case there weren't even assets involved, just money which pisses off fans even more. Fans want Rogers to spend and they fail because of an 'established value' that AA put on Darvish which in baseball terms makes sense but for the fanatic doesn't.
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Rule #1 of being a GM, Owner or Coach of a Sports Team:
NEVER REACT TO THE FANBASE
As you said the fanbase as a whole is short-sighted and stupid. The whole thing will blow over once the next rumor of AA chasing a player comes out. Had AA bid $65 million to make sure he got Darvish, just to satisfy the fanbase, that would have been the wrong move.
Let the fanbase be angry because in sports any emotion is good emotion, the real problem is when fans stop caring about what the team does.