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1 hour ago, Pickles said:

"The leash is only so long"

LOL.  Completely delusional take.  Nobody with half a brain is even contemplating replacing Elias, or failing to acknowledge that Elias has shown himself to be one of the very top executives in baseball.  That includes you and CoC.

Again, you start at the premise we didn't win the World Series and therefore everything that was done was inadequate and a failure,  It's just a profoundly stupid premise; I'm sorry there's no other way to say it.

Bring in a guy who a year later starts Game One of the WS?  Well he didn't pitch well for us and we didn't go to the WS so it's inadequate.

Bring in a guy who pitched amazingly well for us- 5-2 2.60 era- well we didn't go to the World Series so failure and inadequate.

Bring in an "ace" who pitched well for us all year and dominated his playoff start- well we didn't go to the World Series so its inadequate.

Your criticisms of his trades are hypotheticals based on the premise that they're proof of failure because we didn't go to the World Series.  And the Rodgers trade.

Rodgers doesn't look like much, but here's a little knowledge for you: We didn't give up much either, not nearly what you think we did.  Stowers was a DFA this off-season, and Norby had some value, but is an unathletic older prospect without a defensive position, who despite all the gnashing of the teeth here about what he did in Miami, put up a 0.6 rWAR if you extrapolate his season over 600 PAs.

It's downright insane that Elias has the most wins in the AL over the last two years without making any "adequate" or "meaningful" moves.

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