"But there's no instant credibility to be had by either DiPoto or Servais. They may turn out to be wizards or else just good at GM'ing and managing. Or worse.
But as I step back from things for a bit I still shake my head that the M's for the third straight time gave the car keys to an unproven GM."
Good stuff amigo.
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Not to react defensively amigo, but I've got no dog in this fight. I was all over DiPoto like a bum on a baloney sandwich. Was the first to point out the off-putting level of self-belief among other things. You remember articles like "Evan Scribner is fine by me, assuming we didn't give up James Paxton for him."
Until he outbid the world for Adam Lind, and followed up with a Gillick-like swoop on Hisashi Iwakuma, which was a Peregrine falcon 200 MPH dive into a very transient opportunity. Those two things caused me to re-evaluate my previous take on him, and then to go back and re-evaluate his moves in that light.