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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
I'm not sure I agree. His draft record still remains to be evaluated but most of the moves he made last off-season were good.
- The Overbay Deal: looks great
- Troy Glaus: Has given the Jays a legitimate cleanup hitter and protection behind VW.
- BJ Ryan: Not as good in the 2nd half but still one of the top closers in the AL
- AJ Burnett: Overall doesn't look great but if he can remain healthy and pitch as he's done as of late he will be a good #2 for the next 4 years.
- Molina: Bad signing in retrospetive but only a 1 year thing so not disastorous.
My only beef with JP is he shoots from the hip a little too much. His comments clamming the 3-4-5 hitters in the mid-season did not help. He needs to realize what his role is as the GM and only speak on the matters. Leave those other type of comments to Gibbons.
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Molina deal was awful considering the fact it was a rolling payroll.
Now the BJ Ryan signing is something I disagree with. It simply is not worth it for the amoumt of money for a closer who is paid 10 million to come in and save games. Not with our payroll. Much more effecient to have say League who wont be as good as BJ and another 10 million dollar, healthy starter.
The drafting is something I strongly disagree with. He drafts a lot of low ceiling college players and he also drafts a lot based on signability, not BPA. Romero over Mike Pelfrey - 1 million dollars signing bonus extra for Pelfrey, now one is in the majors who has a 99MPH fastball, the other is still toiling in AAA, lucky to get a sept call up by next season.
Favoring quantity over quality. In fact of any team in the majors, we took the most college players of ANY team. In fact our farm system is ranked to be one of the lowest in the majors (by places such as baseball america), for producing both impact players and quality ML talent. There is no Roy Halladay in our system like there was for JP left over from Gord Ash. No Vernon Wells.
Now, Travis Snider appears to be the real deal, what do you know, the first HS player taken by JP in the first round in his entire tenure. Of course its early.