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I'm still worried about the direction of this club. I love some of the roster decisions, but for me, this one is just befuddling. Like Figgins! I called him an overpriced Mark McLemore when he signed Figgy!.
But case in point is Carp vs. Smoak/Moneyball Beane vs. Zduriencik/Results vs. Potential. All the tai-chi, slow swing, heavy bat stuff is great, but at the end of the day, isn't this just basically closer to banking on scouting reports than minor league results. I would really love this if this storyline was with Carp, he of many HRs and 2Bs as a farmhand, but it's with Smoak and his mediocre minor league past and a historically airheaded baseball mind.
Why should I give Big Z a pass on this? And if I should buy in, is this pass based on the fact that GMZ is a really good talent evaluator, a GM that is exploiting market inefficiencies, or just a good repackaged pre-Moneyball GM?