Worst GM in MLB

He drafted his son about 15 rounds too early, but other than that, he's done a fine job.

 

Even though he's no longer a GM I voted for Wayne Krivsky simply because he was dumb enough to hire Dusty after he proved what a complete fucking idiot he was in Chicago.

 

David Littlefield laughs at your nomination.

I'll take Dodger Ned, if only for the Juan Pierre contact.

 

All you need is the Matt Morris trade - let alone the rest of his body of work - to see he's one of the all-time worst.

 

And the team with the only $200 million+ payroll in baseball has won exactly what in the Brian Cashman era?

 

Agreed. Given that he did assemble a World Series-winning team, he probably shouldn't be on this list.

 

As a guy with a history of Gold Gloves and 30-plus homer seasons, coming off a bad year at the age of 31, likely with something to prove?

Sure, the salary is high (welcome to baseball), but you would make the logical guess that a guy like that would get himself in shape for the duration of the two-year contract, knowing that if he doesn't, that would be his last big deal.

It was a risk worth taking. And that bastard came to camp 30 pounds overweight, to play the one position on the field where if you do not have an athlete, you are finished.

You mentioned Kemp and Ethier . . . they can only man two of the outfield spots. But hey, Andruw Jones didn't represent a potential upgrade over that game-breaker Juan Pierre, right?

 

Well, Piotr, considering Andruw didn't have any other serious offers, was the "risK' really worth $18 million per year?
The idea of signing him might not have ben bad; the contract is an abomination.

 

Agreed on the contract.

Colletti has been like Kevin Malone as a Dodgers GM. "What? I have all this money to play with?!?!? COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

They overspend on just about every signing.

 

Actually, when the Angels blew away the Royals five-year, $70 million offer to Torii Hunter at the last second, the Royals moved on to Andruw Jones. They offered him something in the ballpark of what the Dodgers gave him, though maybe closer to $15 million for two seasons, if I remember right.

When that didn't happen, the Royals moved on to Jose Guillen at three years, $36 million.

 

look at all the brilliant moves he's made. Kevin Brown, Carl Pavano, Kei Igawa, Jose Contreras, Giami (even though that was probably more of a Steinbrenner move), declining the option on Jon Lieber--need I go on? But he has a 200-million dollar payroll to hide the mistakes and sign the big player.