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Friday, December 17, 2004 |
"We Feel Like We Stepped Up"
From a piece not written by Plaschke or Simers:
"It hurts," said DePodesta, who is in his first off-season as general manager. "We would have loved to have had him back. We feel like we stepped up and made a competitive offer. Then we tried to make it a compelling one. Unfortunately, Adrian decided to go elsewhere.""A competitive offer". The epitaph of yet another Dodger great, and the epitaph of any future ones the club might develop. Really, now, he only now pulls the plug on the Green/Brazoban/etc. deal because losing Beltre "might" cause them to "rethink their role", because Belly's absence means they might need some more offense? Is this for real?
Comments:
Not sure where you're going with this, Rob - just need a clarification. Losing Beltre would make one at least rethink the Green trade (though it still might be worth doing). And it certainly still seems unclear why exactly the Dodgers didn't sign Beltre - was it DePodesta laissez-faire or something else? Anyway, not quite following your train of thought to "Is this for real?"
Jon -- For me the secondary trade (Green/Brazoban/etc.) even being considered when they had no clear answer at 3B or even offense overall strikes me as poor planning. Again, it smacks of the Charles Johnson situation all over again: tons of scheming but no planning. It's like somebody with a freeway map who loses his transmission in a pothole because he wasn't watching the road.
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