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1 hour ago, LookinUp said:

I still follow that guy on twitter. Very active in politics. Still comments on the O's, at least on twitter. Don't know if he still has that message board. I'm guessing he didn't really get any traffic.

Circa 2008 he was advocating the team (remember, with essentially no farm system and a 68-win baseline) sign a bunch of Teixeira/Fielder category free agents to right the ship.  He's probably thrilled with a complete rebuild.  Surprised we haven't felt great disturbances in the force.

The greatest Trea-ism was "no one should ever be criticized for their opinions."

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5 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

This all assumes that quality was a choice.

I think the notion that GM's get to pick more players over a smaller amount of better ones in trades is the stuff of baseball fan message board fantasy land.  

No according to a voice clip from the Angels side, they said these were the guys Mike was targeting. He went in the direction of Quantity

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24 minutes ago, LookinUp said:

Trea loved Smoak. He hated that we took Matusz. In hindsight, that draft was pretty bad.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/draft/y2008/drafttracker.jsp

Right, he wanted him for the draft.

That is correct, I was thinking more along the lines that he wasn't a long term obsession.  Of course Trea would want a 1B over a pitcher in the draft.

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4 hours ago, Luke-OH said:

He thinks player development can create quality from certain raw attributes. So he grabs as many with those attributes as possible.

The interesting thing will be to see if he's correct over the next 3-5 years. I find it all fascinating. 

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