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Just as we all will draw our own conclusions and see how the chips fall, like every off-season.

That is a fair point on the trainer, but it wasn't like Conte was the one driving it. In fact, it is the exact opposite where the PLAYER wanted to go to a place where he had a familiar trainer he had worked with before. To me, that doesn't sound like a player who doesn't have some of his own questions about his future health. Does it? Most pitchers not as concerned about their health don't make the trainer a high priority in their decisions as he did. That might raise more flags and questions than provide assuring health answers.

I'm not going to argue much over Schmidt, though, when I said I would have signed him MYSELF before. I'll repeat that again for those who don't believe or think I'm arguing against the guy when I'm not really. There isn't a ton of disagreement over him personally. I just mentioned that the Giants had already crossed that bridge previously and made their own independent decisions about that player prior to their later choices. They made that decision for a REASON and it wasn't just money related.