Kevin Gregg and Adams DFA'd; Hoes and Chavez Selected

[Ruzious]

While I'm not going to feel sorry for Gregg, I probably would not have made the move to bring up Hoes. I just don't see a role for him on this team in a playoffs run, and I'd rather have another arm in the bullpen down the stretch.

[callahan09]

No. Dan Duquette wants to bring you a winner. He is not a people pleaser.

For all the talk of Buck deserving Manager of the Year awards, why isn't anyone talking about DD for Executive of the Year? What he has done with the roster moves, trades, and signings, etc. for this team has been nothing short of astounding.

[Malike]

For all the talk of Buck deserving Manager of the Year awards, why isn't anyone talking about DD for Executive of the Year? What he has done with the roster moves, trades, and signings, etc. for this team has been nothing short of astounding.

Because Billy Beane is the sexy pick.

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[Ampontan]

If this were true, Duquette would have spent considerably more and behaved considerably differently that he has. There is no basis for this suspicion that I can see.

They signed Adam Jones to an expensive contract extension in mid-season. (Did it last year with Hardy, too.) Signing Chen and Wada cost some money. The financial investment they made in Rick Petersen and his biomechanical analysis for most of the pitchers in the system received a specific thanks of gratitude from DD (or Peterson, I forget) toward ownership. The other money they've been spending on technology that Weems talks about? I think they've spent quite a bit. It just hasn't been on flashy free agent acquisitions.

I also think they wanted to see what they had and wanted to wait a bit until they reached a plateau of respectability. Finally, I think that the buy-a-team days of the 90s, running from Big Sid/Chris Sabo to Albert Belle, aren't coming back anyway. They'll spend the money in different ways.

[RavNMadMan]

Man...releasing him during a playoff race after using him in clean-up duty all year would just be the ultimate dick move. Gotta do what you gotta do, though.

Gregg has 5.8 Million reasons to comfort him.

[RavNMadMan]

No. Dan Duquette wants to bring you a winner. He is not a people pleaser.

Exactly. In my experience, winning pleases people.

[OFFNY]

Gregg has 5.8 Million reasons to comfort him.

Along with lifetime medical benefits, and a nice pension coming to him when he starts collecting.

[DrungoHazewood]

For all the talk of Buck deserving Manager of the Year awards, why isn't anyone talking about DD for Executive of the Year? What he has done with the roster moves, trades, and signings, etc. for this team has been nothing short of astounding.

Because I'd have to Google Executive of the Year to figure out if that's actually a MLB award. So I'd assume most folks didn't even know it was a thing to talk about.

[xian4]

Kevin Gregg has been released.

[Crazysilver03]

Ryan Adams cleared waivers.