DM at winter meetings with busted ankle

[brewmann04]

AS per Tom H tweet broken Ankle

[sheetskout]

Yes, saw this on Twitter just now. Doug's had a couple rough winter-meeting weeks the last couple of years!

[jerichoholicninja]

He probably fakes these injuries to get sympathy and a deal from other GM's and agents.

[LaprilOne]

How do you fake a broken ankle? You are being sarcastic, I presume, but then again....

[pacopete4]

Maybe he doesn't actually fake the injury but could have had one of his assistants break it for him so like jerichoholicninja said, he could get some sympathy and get a better deal from other GM's.

[jerichoholicninja]

I didn't think my comment required blue.

[bjkrautk]

If the payroll goes north of 120 mil...maybe Mark A. will have the other ankle broken, too.

[Lee16]

What did he do, low ball a contract offer to K-Rod?

[SRB]

He probably fakes these injuries to get sympathy and a deal from other GM's and agents.

 

"Thanks for the trade"

 

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[ewitkows]

This is why the A's are a better run team.

 

The A's know this. But listen to what assistant GM David Forst told FanGraphs' Eno Sarris at the winter meetings:

I think Billy has articulated in a couple of places that we knew that just bringing back the current team, assuming the losses of Lester, and Gregerson, and Lowrie and some of those guys that we didn’t have an opportunity to sign -- bringing back that team wasn’t going to work. The Angels were obviously 11 games better than us and the Mariners were right on our tail, and poised to get better. Just bringing back our group and just supplementing it with little pieces, wasn’t going to give us a chance to compete, and was also going to leave us further down the path of having an older, more injury-prone club, frankly.

 

We decided very early on that we needed to take a similar route that we did in 2011, in November in December, and work hard on increasing our depth, getting younger and getting healthier.

[SRB]

This is why the A's are a better run team.

 

The A's know this. But listen to what assistant GM David Forst told FanGraphs' Eno Sarris at the winter meetings:

I think Billy has articulated in a couple of places that we knew that just bringing back the current team, assuming the losses of Lester, and Gregerson, and Lowrie and some of those guys that we didn’t have an opportunity to sign -- bringing back that team wasn’t going to work. The Angels were obviously 11 games better than us and the Mariners were right on our tail, and poised to get better. Just bringing back our group and just supplementing it with little pieces, wasn’t going to give us a chance to compete, and was also going to leave us further down the path of having an older, more injury-prone club, frankly.

 

We decided very early on that we needed to take a similar route that we did in 2011, in November in December, and work hard on increasing our depth, getting younger and getting healthier.

 

I don't buy the Beane worship. The fact of the matter is he wanted to cut payroll, so he sold off the entire A's team, not for good prospects, but for terrible mediocre returns. As someone pointed out on Twitter, if Jeff Loria and the Marlins had done exactly what Beane did everyone would have been up in arms.

[MNBrew]

This is why the A's are a better run team.

 

The A's know this. But listen to what assistant GM David Forst told FanGraphs' Eno Sarris at the winter meetings:

I think Billy has articulated in a couple of places that we knew that just bringing back the current team, assuming the losses of Lester, and Gregerson, and Lowrie and some of those guys that we didn’t have an opportunity to sign -- bringing back that team wasn’t going to work. The Angels were obviously 11 games better than us and the Mariners were right on our tail, and poised to get better. Just bringing back our group and just supplementing it with little pieces, wasn’t going to give us a chance to compete, and was also going to leave us further down the path of having an older, more injury-prone club, frankly.

 

We decided very early on that we needed to take a similar route that we did in 2011, in November in December, and work hard on increasing our depth, getting younger and getting healthier.

 

I don't buy the Beane worship. The fact of the matter is he wanted to cut payroll, so he sold off the entire A's team, not for good prospects, but for terrible mediocre returns. As someone pointed out on Twitter, if Jeff Loria and the Marlins had done exactly what Beane did everyone would have been up in arms.

Ditto, SRB.... And then there's also the sorta-glossed-over move that he went out & paid Billy Butler a large sum of money that could just as well turn into a Gagne buffoonery contract as it could a good deal. People rave about the A's doing it, but if the Brewers had signed Butler, MANY on this board would be calling for Melvin's head (yet again) . . . and Attanasio's, too, since they're convinced he's got no sense about him whatsoever and is really the string-pulling man we're not supposed to see behind the green curtain.