Our Management Sucks!

RMF · 05-26-2008, 01:35 PM

Dan O'dowd is freaking asleep at the wheel. These guys got handed a Miracle last season with a real opporunity to undo the massive harm they did and they made poor trades and sat on their butts.

The 2B choices were bloody awful. They couldn't come up with a few million for someone decent? I'm still scratching my head over the Ramirez trade. (As I've become a KC Fan) Now living in that area I'm not sure that I care anymore.

The fact of the matter is that the Rockies have absolutley no clue how to hedge a bet. Remember what I said about the Rockies not drafting Evan Longoria. Because that inability to act may just haunt this franchise.

Remember the Rockies scouted him all season long. At the very end they decided to go in another direction. This was a player they scouted all year long! I mean clearly they do a horrible job evaluating players, they don't do well with risk/reward and they've always shown a willingness to trade their latin players for under market value.

With those constants in place I challenge any one of you to find a strategy which would allow this club to compete.

Now they are honestly in a place where they're probably going to have to deal Atkins this season while He'll fetch a premium.

And yes the Rock's have been a little unlucky, but they've also had a SS playing out of his mind who's either finally on the HGH or is getting incredibly lucky. I'll vote for some of each.

This franchise is run by absolute idiots!

BigRapidsJackass · 05-26-2008, 10:11 PM

Good to hear a rant. About time, I'd say.

Woody Paige (of all people) is the only local guy to call out O'Dowd so far. On Sunday Woody pointed out the obvious: O'Dowd pitched a shutout this winter when it came to making discretionary signings (I'm not including the deals for guys like Tulo, Holliday, Hawpe, Cook and Corpas, since those guys were already under Rox control for the all of, or the bulk of their extensions).

Torrealba
Vizcaino
Kip Wells
Mark Redman
Micah Bowie
Josh Towers
Podsednik

Add to that the Jayson Nix debacle. Obviously they've given up on him. Tulo and Barmes both go down, and O'Dowd turns to Q and Herrera instead of bringing Nix back up. He's now roughly 5th on our pathetic 2B depth chart.

Not a single one of them has made any kind of contribution whatsoever. Even those that haven't been atrocious (Podsednik/Torrealba) have just given the Rox what you'd expect from the pool of freely available talent. In other words, Podsednik is no better than Cory Sullivan, who (by the way) is making $1 million this year as yet another example of O'Dowd's bizarre idea of having "insurance" available if someone gets hurt. The point here is that nobody needs insurance like that, since it amounts to "if Willy Taveras gets hurt in May, then we won't need to make an emergency signing of some Cory Sullivan type to fill in." No, we'll just guarantee that the Cory Sullivan type is available on 4 hours notice 70 miles down I-25, and we'll fork over a million bucks for the luxury of having that.

Josh Towers? Insurance. Jorge de la Rosa? Insurance. What the hell is this idea of insurance? When has it ever helped us? Brian Lawrence was "insurance" last year. And when pitchers actually got hurt in August, Lawrence was long gone and we turned to rookies (Jimenez/Morales) and the freely available talent pool (Redman) instead, and it worked quite acceptably, thank you.

RMF · 05-27-2008, 08:57 AM

O'dowd is a bad GM plain and simple. The owners clearly don't get it. Right now I'm sure Charlie Monfort is convinced that the Rockies are a better baseball team than Boston.

This organization is all on acid. Believe it or not we are quickly approaching our rebuilding phase. Oh the cupboard won't be completely bare like it was last time but here is the real question.

Can we trust O'dowd to make the right moves with pieces like Atkins and Holliday to speed up the rebuilding process?

It's just plain scary to have the franchise in these hands.

What is probably going to happen is that O'dowd and Hurdle will get lifetime contracts. Or at the very least 4 year extensions.

05-26-2008, 01:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
RMF Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 201	Our Management Sucks! Dan O'dowd is freaking asleep at the wheel. These guys got handed a Miracle last season with a real opporunity to undo the massive harm they did and they made poor trades and sat on their butts. The 2B choices were bloody awful. They couldn't come up with a few million for someone decent? I'm still scratching my head over the Ramirez trade. (As I've become a KC Fan) Now living in that area I'm not sure that I care anymore. The fact of the matter is that the Rockies have absolutley no clue how to hedge a bet. Remember what I said about the Rockies not drafting Evan Longoria. Because that inability to act may just haunt this franchise. Remember the Rockies scouted him all season long. At the very end they decided to go in another direction. This was a player they scouted all year long! I mean clearly they do a horrible job evaluating players, they don't do well with risk/reward and they've always shown a willingness to trade their latin players for under market value. With those constants in place I challenge any one of you to find a strategy which would allow this club to compete. Now they are honestly in a place where they're probably going to have to deal Atkins this season while He'll fetch a premium. And yes the Rock's have been a little unlucky, but they've also had a SS playing out of his mind who's either finally on the HGH or is getting incredibly lucky. I'll vote for some of each. This franchise is run by absolute idiots!

05-27-2008, 08:57 AM	#3 (permalink)
RMF Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 201	Ugghh O'dowd is a bad GM plain and simple. The owners clearly don't get it. Right now I'm sure Charlie Monfort is convinced that the Rockies are a better baseball team than Boston. This organization is all on acid. Believe it or not we are quickly approaching our rebuilding phase. Oh the cupboard won't be completely bare like it was last time but here is the real question. Can we trust O'dowd to make the right moves with pieces like Atkins and Holliday to speed up the rebuilding process? It's just plain scary to have the franchise in these hands. What is probably going to happen is that O'dowd and Hurdle will get lifetime contracts. Or at the very least 4 year extensions.

05-26-2008, 10:11 PM	#2 (permalink)
BigRapidsJackass Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,123	Good to hear a rant. About time, I'd say. Woody Paige (of all people) is the only local guy to call out O'Dowd so far. On Sunday Woody pointed out the obvious: O'Dowd pitched a shutout this winter when it came to making discretionary signings (I'm not including the deals for guys like Tulo, Holliday, Hawpe, Cook and Corpas, since those guys were already under Rox control for the all of, or the bulk of their extensions). Torrealba Vizcaino Kip Wells Mark Redman Micah Bowie Josh Towers Podsednik Add to that the Jayson Nix debacle. Obviously they've given up on him. Tulo and Barmes both go down, and O'Dowd turns to Q and Herrera instead of bringing Nix back up. He's now roughly 5th on our pathetic 2B depth chart. Not a single one of them has made any kind of contribution whatsoever. Even those that haven't been atrocious (Podsednik/Torrealba) have just given the Rox what you'd expect from the pool of freely available talent. In other words, Podsednik is no better than Cory Sullivan, who (by the way) is making $1 million this year as yet another example of O'Dowd's bizarre idea of having "insurance" available if someone gets hurt. The point here is that nobody needs insurance like that, since it amounts to "if Willy Taveras gets hurt in May, then we won't need to make an emergency signing of some Cory Sullivan type to fill in." No, we'll just guarantee that the Cory Sullivan type is available on 4 hours notice 70 miles down I-25, and we'll fork over a million bucks for the luxury of having that. Josh Towers? Insurance. Jorge de la Rosa? Insurance. What the hell is this idea of insurance? When has it ever helped us? Brian Lawrence was "insurance" last year. And when pitchers actually got hurt in August, Lawrence was long gone and we turned to rookies (Jimenez/Morales) and the freely available talent pool (Redman) instead, and it worked quite acceptably, thank you.