Front Office What The Hell

[kairos12]

The Arizona Diamondback traded away Max Scherzer, Trevor Bauer, and passed on Mike Trout in the draft--twice.

That is a combined 3 MVPs and 3 Cy Youngs.

To the rest of MLB from the Dbacks--you're welcome.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Trust me - you're STILL ahead.........

we have ROBERT NUTTING (as in "I'm putting 'nutting' into the team" ) as the owner of the Pirates.

[The Polack MSgt]

7. The thing that makes it worse is that Nutting was a huge upgrade at Owner

That's how snake bit the Buccos are

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Sorry, Sarge, but

the only thing Nutting had was $$$$$$$$$$ - and he wanted to make more of it.
McClatchy was strapped - couldn't raise enough capital to make it grow.
Nutting has it - but won't invest more to make the "product" better.
He doesn't have to - the TV and league contracts cover his expenses every year - he's got a "sweetheart" deal with the stadium - and even when they lose (DAMN, they're good at that!) HE MAKES MONEY!!!!!!

[The Polack MSgt]

9. 11 years of McClatchey garnered 785 wins for an average of 71.3 Wins a season

Count Nutting's 11 full seasons and you get 921 wins for an 83.7 average.

He blew up that last good squad, but that is the small market M.O. now. let's see what comes out of your farm with those prospects and picks he got in the fire sale.

On the other hand, McClatchy never kept any good players around and treated the franchise like a cattle ranch.

Except for signing Jeremy Beernuts for some incomprehensible reason, he was allergic to free agency too

Not saying that Nutting is a great owner, but McClatchey was a disaster

[Devilsun]

10. My nephew Rory was born on the day the Pirates won the world series the

Last time. I tease him that he is the Pirates curse of the Bambino 😝

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Aren't the D-Backs headed out of town shortly.

Chatter about ending up in Summerland . Hughes Corp.

[kairos12]

6. Not out of town.

There is talk of building a stadium on the outskirts of Phoenix. This had quieted lately because of COVID.

The stadium they have now has the appeal of an airplane hangar.

[4Q2u2]

3. Montreal Expos

Traded
Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Gary Carter, Vald Guerero, Andre Dawson, Larry Walker.
Jeff Reardon. Tim Raines.

Major Screw Ups.

[gibraltar72]

5. Neither Scherzer or Verlander were good enough to stay in Detroit!

[kairos12]

11. They contracted Dback Disease!