Dan Duquette Trade History

[Slade-OH]

Good article from Baltimore Baseball that highlights Duquette's trade history: http://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2017/07/24/dan-duquette-fared-trading-veterans-prospects-sell-deals-mlb-career/

[NCRaven]

5 minutes ago, Slade-OH said:

Good article from Baltimore Baseball that highlights Duquette's trade history: http://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2017/07/24/dan-duquette-fared-trading-veterans-prospects-sell-deals-mlb-career/

It looks like Duquette has been better at selling veterans in bad (losing) years than he has at buying veterans in good (winning) years.  Maybe he is the right guy to have at the helm right now.

[ISU94]

40 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

It looks like Duquette has been better at selling veterans in bad (losing) years than he has at buying veterans in good (winning) years.  Maybe he is the right guy to have at the helm right now.

Yeah, actually very surprised this thread has been up this long and only has one reply. That's pretty impressive what he was able to do when dealing vets. Give us another Varitek/Lowe or Pedro haul DD!

[99ct]

52 minutes ago, Slade-OH said:

Good article from Baltimore Baseball that highlights Duquette's trade history: http://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2017/07/24/dan-duquette-fared-trading-veterans-prospects-sell-deals-mlb-career/

There are some great trades here. Two in particular. It goes without saying that I'd love to see him repeat some of those steals for the Orioles. 

[hoosiers]

It's a shame DD has not been a seller the past few years.  Reverse logic says he would have improved our playoff chances because he did so poorly as a buyer!

[NickM21]

Duke is like a poker player that does really well as a short stack but as soon as he gets a lot of chips he starts throwing them into pots he shouldn't.

[webbrick2010]

Shouldn't this be titled DD's ancient trade history. Who cares if he was once a competent GM 20 to 30 years ago

[ISU94]

6 minutes ago, webbrick2010 said:

Shouldn't this be titled DD's ancient trade history. Who cares if he was once a competent GM 20 to 30 years ago

So instead of looking at what he was able to do while trading vets we should be looking at what he has done lately when trying to buy with one of the worst farms in baseball come the deadline when almost every buyer has to overpay/do something stupid to improve? DD has made plenty of bonehead moves, multiple ones making no sense (Letting Bridwell go for nothing, Davies for Parra, trading for Snider), but I'd much rather look at what he did when trying to deal vets for young talent than the other way around. 

[Tony-OH]

Great article by the new Daddy, Paul Folkemer! It does go to show that Duquette's strength in the past have been with the sell trades. The question is are teh guys who were evaluating for him then still able to do so now? Also, does he have ownership's blessing to actually sell big pieces that could net a nice return?

[LA2]

Sell, Sell!

[Tx Oriole]

59 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

Great article by the new Daddy, Paul Folkemer! It does go to show that Duquette's strength in the past have been with the sell trades. The question is are teh guys who were evaluating for him then still able to do so now? Also, does he have ownership's blessing to actually sell big pieces that could net a nice return?

Good questions Tony.

[ISU94]

1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

Great article by the new Daddy, Paul Folkemer! It does go to show that Duquette's strength in the past have been with the sell trades. The question is are teh guys who were evaluating for him then still able to do so now? Also, does he have ownership's blessing to actually sell big pieces that could net a nice return?

"Another Orioles’ tie-in here: The Boston scout that recommended Lowe and Varitek from the Mariners’ system was Gary Rajsich, whom Duquette hired in 2011 to be the Orioles’ scouting director."

That's good at least.

[NCRaven]

1 hour ago, Tony-OH said:

Also, does he have ownership's blessing to actually sell big pieces that could net a nice return?

If big pieces include Britton, Brach, O'Day, Smith and Castillo, apparently yes.

If they inclulde Machado or Jones, apparently no.  Guess it depends on how big "big" is.

[Tony-OH]

4 minutes ago, NCRaven said:

If big pieces include Britton, Brach, O'Day, Smith and Castillo, apparently yes.

If they inclulde Machado or Jones, apparently no.  Guess it depends on how big "big" is.

I wonder though after the Rangers series and his comments if ownership changed their minds, even on Britton and Brach. Guess we'll see.

[ISU94]

1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

I wonder though after the Rangers series and his comments if ownership changed their minds, even on Britton and Brach. Guess we'll see.

Thing is, we are a week out from the deadline and that talk was in front of season ticket holders. Not sure what else he would have said in that situation. Even though the news came out that he asked for permission to shop those guys and got it, he has yet to say once publicly at any point that they are available/they are selling. Doubt he says that to the media until we actually move someone if we get a good enough package. Wouldn't shock me if come the day before the deadline if he's interviewed he says the same thing even if we lose every game until then.