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It is hard to believe what a horrendous 2015 Dan Duquette had. Look at this collection!

Traded for Gerardo Parra (.215/.244/.340/.584 as an Oriole)

Traded for Junior Lake (.143/.143/.286/.429 as an Oriole)

Got Jorge Rondon off waivers (4.15 ERA in 13 innings)

Traded for Travis Snider (.237/.318/.341/.649 before being released)

Re-signed Delmon Young (.270/.289/.339/.628 before being released)

Re-signed Alejandro De Aza (.214/.277/.359/.636 before being released)

Signed Evereth Cabrera (.208/.250/.229/.479 before being released)

Signed Ryan Lavarnway (.107/.219/.243/.362 before being released)

Signed Paul Janish (.259/.250/.333/.583)

Signed Wesley Wright (pitched 2 games before injured for season)

Re-signed J.J. Hardy for 3 years (.213/.246/.306/.553)

In fact, it is hard to find one single positive contribution he added throughout this season. That is hard to believe!

I don't think Duquette is this horrible of a GM. The guy has a great career W/L record and has made some really good moves for us (Cruz, Chen, Pearce, Gonzalez, McLouth, etc). But his timing on a bad offseason couldn't have been worse.

I expect he will do better this offseason. It will be difficult to do worse.

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It is hard to believe what a horrendous 2015 Dan Duquette had. Look at this collection!

Traded for Gerardo Parra (.215/.244/.340/.584 as an Oriole)

Traded for Junior Lake (.143/.143/.286/.429 as an Oriole)

Got Jorge Rondon off waivers (4.15 ERA in 13 innings)

Traded for Travis Snider (.237/.318/.341/.649 before being released)

Re-signed Delmon Young (.270/.289/.339/.628 before being released)

Re-signed Alejandro De Aza (.214/.277/.359/.636 before being released)

Signed Evereth Cabrera (.208/.250/.229/.479 before being released)

Signed Ryan Lavarnway (.107/.219/.243/.362 before being released)

Signed Paul Janish (.259/.250/.333/.583)

Signed Wesley Wright (pitched 2 games before injured for season)

Re-signed J.J. Hardy for 3 years (.213/.246/.306/.553)

In fact, it is hard to find one single positive contribution he added throughout this season. That is hard to believe!

I don't think Duquette is this horrible of a GM. The guy has a great career W/L record and has made some really good moves for us (Cruz, Chen, Pearce, Gonzalez, McLouth, etc). But his timing on a bad offseason couldn't have been worse.

I expect he will do better this offseason. It will be difficult to do worse.

Good list, but if I remember correctly, De Aza was traded for Joe Gunkel - who had an excellent year for Bowie.

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It is hard to believe what a horrendous 2015 Dan Duquette had. Look at this collection!

Traded for Gerardo Parra (.215/.244/.340/.584 as an Oriole)

Traded for Junior Lake (.143/.143/.286/.429 as an Oriole)

Got Jorge Rondon off waivers (4.15 ERA in 13 innings)

Traded for Travis Snider (.237/.318/.341/.649 before being released)

Re-signed Delmon Young (.270/.289/.339/.628 before being released)

Re-signed Alejandro De Aza (.214/.277/.359/.636 before being released)

Signed Evereth Cabrera (.208/.250/.229/.479 before being released)

Signed Ryan Lavarnway (.107/.219/.243/.362 before being released)

Signed Paul Janish (.259/.250/.333/.583)

Signed Wesley Wright (pitched 2 games before injured for season)

Re-signed J.J. Hardy for 3 years (.213/.246/.306/.553)

In fact, it is hard to find one single positive contribution he added throughout this season. That is hard to believe!

I don't think Duquette is this horrible of a GM. The guy has a great career W/L record and has made some really good moves for us (Cruz, Chen, Pearce, Gonzalez, McLouth, etc). But his timing on a bad offseason couldn't have been worse.

I expect he will do better this offseason. It will be difficult to do worse.

Wesley Wright out for the season? HUH? Hes pitching for the Angels and pitching very well. Why lie?

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as my wife says, you get what you pay for.

You can't replace Markakis production if you feel that his production is over-valued. Similarly with Cruz. If Cruz were 29, with his production we would have received another 80 million dollars. In the long run, for this franchise, it was probably the right move, for this franchise. But how many players on your list were brought in to replicate and replace those 2 players. Whay was their health and age factors that required their departure, but Hardy's was not? Trade Hardy, put Manny at SS and get a 3B.

Duquette's problem was that he constrained to create a roster with adquate resources. The Orioles should have been able to develop an in house RF to replace Markakis, for much less cost than the players brought int, the lack of adequate farm system players hurt.

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It is hard to believe what a horrendous 2015 Dan Duquette had. Look at this collection!

Traded for Gerardo Parra (.215/.244/.340/.584 as an Oriole)

Traded for Junior Lake (.143/.143/.286/.429 as an Oriole)

Got Jorge Rondon off waivers (4.15 ERA in 13 innings)

Traded for Travis Snider (.237/.318/.341/.649 before being released)

Re-signed Delmon Young (.270/.289/.339/.628 before being released)

Re-signed Alejandro De Aza (.214/.277/.359/.636 before being released)

Signed Evereth Cabrera (.208/.250/.229/.479 before being released)

Signed Ryan Lavarnway (.107/.219/.243/.362 before being released)

Signed Paul Janish (.259/.250/.333/.583)

Signed Wesley Wright (pitched 2 games before injured for season)

Re-signed J.J. Hardy for 3 years (.213/.246/.306/.553)

In fact, it is hard to find one single positive contribution he added throughout this season. That is hard to believe!

I don't think Duquette is this horrible of a GM. The guy has a great career W/L record and has made some really good moves for us (Cruz, Chen, Pearce, Gonzalez, McLouth, etc). But his timing on a bad offseason couldn't have been worse.

I expect he will do better this offseason. It will be difficult to do worse.

Well...I think you could also look at it another way.....look at what DD gave Buck to work with in 2015:

Best defense in baseball

Best HR hitter in baseball

Best set-up man in baseball

Top 3 closer in baseball

Best 3b in baseball

Best defensive SS in baseball

All Star CF in his prime

Top 5 2B in the AL

Returned the entire rotation that was one of the best the second half of 2014

All of that and Buck couldn't get that team to play .500 ball.

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Duquette certainly did have a nightmare year. Some of it he brought on himself. Some of it was due to reasonable risks he took that could have turned out successful but almost always didn't. It will be interesting to see if the off season brings a non-stop bashfest or whether some balance finds its way into the discussion.

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Well...I think you could also look at it another way.....look at what DD gave Buck to work with in 2015:

Best defense in baseball

Best HR hitter in baseball

Best set-up man in baseball

Top 3 closer in baseball

Best 3b in baseball

Best defensive SS in baseball

All Star CF in his prime

Top 5 2B in the AL

Returned the entire rotation that was one of the best the second half of 2014

All of that and Buck couldn't get that team to play .500 ball.

Right its been a very bad year for both of them.

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Of course, none of this is new, we have already been beating on DD this entire season in multiple threads.

It does make it especially clear to see it all in one list.

Actually the worst move of all I would say is selling the comp pick and Webb. Other than that, nobody on this list really cost much of anything.

How about Chaz Roe for a positive move? Janish was fine for what we wanted and the price paid. Pearce should be on this list and he has been OK overall despite a massive slump early in the season.

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Skip literally just said last night that Wright was a huge pickup for them. So now a guy who has posted 50K times on a message board knows more than a skip with a World Series title? Are you serious bro?

Ahh how cute, you mentioned my post count. (of course you got it wrong but accuracy doesn't seem to be one of your strong suits)

No one has done that in months.

I missed it so.

Guys say things all the time, look at Wright's stats with the Dodgers.

0-0 8 G 5.1 IP 2ER, 3.38 ERA as a LOOGY 5.39 FIP 1.313 WHIP 1.67 K/BB ratio.

I don't care who says it, that is not pitching "very well". That is not a "huge pickup".

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