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Originally Posted by tiger337
If a team playing in weak division with a 130 million payroll is forced to trade two of it's best players in order to compete a couple years down the road, then I think they have failed. Maybe that's what they have to do but I see it as embarrassing for the organization rather than exciting. I think they've put themselves in a bad spot. That's why I'm having a hard time enjoying these rumors at the moment.
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I agree with you that the organization put itself here. Why let Magglio's contract vest? The two lefty extensions were pretty bad, too. Robertson was defensible, I guess, but Willis really wasn't. They ran into bad luck on Bonderman's health, that's for sure. Guillen is owed a ton of money.
Dombrowski is a decent GM but he's been too trigger happy on signing guys to extensions a year early. Why was Inge extended after his career year? Why not wait a season? Same with Nate. And if, because of all those bad extensions to league average performers, they can't hold on to Verlander with an extension, then I'm going to be mad.