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Originally Posted by fleury
He had a plan. The plan in hindsight was to deal guys who had no future with the club, get draft picks and solid prospects, see who pans out, promote them to the club, then deal others at the right time for bonafide stars the year the Jays went for it. Some of those deals, as you mentioned, didn't go well, but that one that you pointed out was the one in hindsight they'd take back. However, almost all the others, at the time, were solid deals which had the Jays even then winning all. He did leave the cupboards bare, but even Norris dealt to the Tigers didn't amount to much. AA deserved a ton of credit for rebuilding and going for it at the right moment.
This isn't to poop on Atkins and Shapiro yet, because they've made a lot of smaller signings and deals that have worked out. However, I've yet to see them acquire those blue chip prospects. Seems like they're working with a lot of mediocrity and not going to the direction of a rebuild but rather a retool, without fully committing. It's just a lot of neither here nor there and I'm scratching my head as to what direction it's going to go. Am I the only one who can't read what's going on?
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Which blue chip prospect did he acquire? The Halladay trade didn't work out, and the only position player or prospect that he acquired that wound up being anything at all was Kevin Pillar.
I think the opposite. AA early on did not have a plan and really until he got Donaldson, which to give him credit was an excellent acquisition, he was really spinning his wheels as a GM (which he himself sort of admits). His trades were mostly to give up prospects for MLB ready talent, or to acquire what he felt was under valued talent (ie Yunel Escobar, Colby Rasmus) and neither approach worked all that well.
I see more of a plan out of Shapiro/Atkins personally.