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Heltonfan · February 8th, 2007, 06:32 PM

Agreed, RockieRooter. And of course, there's also the little matter of the Hampton/Neagle/Helton spending binge being largely ownership-driven.

I put together my own GM rankings a couple weeks ago, and wound up ranking O'Dowd 19th. He's made too many bad deals (and non-deals; a smarter GM would have dumped guys like Chacon and Stark while they still had value) to rank in the top half of the league, but there's no way that he belongs in the bottom 5. The guys at that level have absolutely no clue how to evaluate talent. O'Dowd isn't nearly that clueless.

February 8th, 2007, 06:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
Heltonfan Moderator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Yerevan, Armenia Posts: 898	Agreed, RockieRooter. And of course, there's also the little matter of the Hampton/Neagle/Helton spending binge being largely ownership-driven. I put together my own GM rankings a couple weeks ago, and wound up ranking O'Dowd 19th. He's made too many bad deals (and non-deals; a smarter GM would have dumped guys like Chacon and Stark while they still had value) to rank in the top half of the league, but there's no way that he belongs in the bottom 5. The guys at that level have absolutely no clue how to evaluate talent. O'Dowd isn't nearly that clueless. Last edited by Heltonfan; February 9th, 2007 at 07:35 AM.