Scouting score card?

which maybe limited the players under consideration.

Yes there are scouts that give their imput but ultimately it is the GM who makes the decision. Now the trades you mention are not necessarily good examples. The Sori trade was one where we were in a low-zero leverage situation with an All Star caliber player. At the time Wilkerson was thought highly of throughout the league and just like other players had he been healthy after coming here who knows what happens. You can blame that trade more on Sori making it public he would not move to the outfield thus negating any and all upperhand we may have had.

The Danks trade didn’t need much convincing. McCarthy had a much better minor league track record, major league experience, and was still very young. Oh and he had no injury history.

arod trade: clearly sori was the goal in that deal, but cano was not as well though of as arias was IIRC

wilkerson trade: we didnt have better options here either i dont think. wilk was the (main) goal and gallagara was a throw in here too

danks for mccarthy: the understanding was that you were trading a guy who was a year ahead and might have had a slightly lower ceiling but was more likely to reach it for a guy who was a few years off and had a higher ceiling, just was less likely to reach it. injuries were not a concern for anyone in the deal here either IIRC

eaton deal: people thought eaton had (finally) harnessed his stuff after that awesome strech. clearly he didnt. adrian gonzalez was someone the org i thought was never very high on for whatever reason. hes a GG caliber 1b, and his power was coming back (also think he might have had a wrist injury that sapped his power?) trading him was foolish even if he was “blocked” at the major league level. they should have kept adrian/rotated him and teix between DH and 1b or moved one of them to LF. period. end of story. adrian being traded was a boneheaded decision. also, who knew that CY would do as well as he had. i have said it before and will say it again but if you put him in any (almost) other park in the league he is not that great of a pitcher, he is in an EXTREME pitchers park. throw him in cincy and lets see how good he is.

anyway, typically PTNBL or throw ins arent expected to be great players. i doubt that he is “not listening to the scouts” if this was the case either they would be gone or he would be gone (think moneyball – beane vs scouts).

what should have been done was push sorianio to the OF and switch sori + whoever you bump to the OF (teix?) between DH and OF, keeping both of them healthy/not having to play a ton of games in the OF.

You have to give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the early trades. He’s a young GM and mistakes were inevitable. What you have to look for is he learning from his mistakes? He’s admitted to screwing up some trades and trying to make a splash to compete when it wasn’t realistic. But, his past 3 big trades have all been huge successes thus far.

Misses: San Diego Trade/ The DH Situation

Jury Still out/ Not his fault- BMac trade/ Sori trade

Hits- So far Hamilton/ Teixeira/ Gagne

Those are the big ones that come to mind but I still have no problem with his direction. Not real happy with the way Botts situation but at least it was for Chris Shelton who’s prob just as likely to contribute to our team. Hopefully Chris Davis puts the whole first base situation to rest.