Hoffman, eligible for free agency, realized he was decreasing his leverage when he declared he wanted to return to play for San Diego in 2009 did not want to move his family.[97] It was announced on November 10, 2008, that Hoffman would not return to San Diego in 2009. With his struggles during the season, the Padres lowballed a $4 million offer with an option for 2010 and later retracted that, ending his career with the Padres.[98][99] It was not an amicable parting for Hoffman, who was the face of the franchise after Tony Gwynn’s retirement following the 2001 season.[19] His 902 career appearances as a Padre extended his own MLB record for games pitched with one team.[52]

Something tells me that Sandy would’ve pulled the offer to Reyes for 85 mil if he ever submitted one in the 1st place…

Sandy never had any intention of signing Reyes

At this point, Sandy is just a good liar in a cheap suit…

Others actually try to say what Sandy has done is good and the team is better for it!
Anyone who does that is placed in the apologist category!

And then applaud him!

He is indeed the business person, the legal mind, the organizational CEO and that is what he always was. He was just lucky to be with Oakland during it’s decade of successful rebuilding and league dominance and got un-deserved credit for let’s face it, one coming in from the “cold” with no professional knowledge of the game and suddenly becoming the architect of those great Oakland teams does make for a great story in the media and a symbol for those who believe the principles of sabermetrics and money ball can be applied as dominating forces the in the professional game – even though it was not true.

He is a forceful individual with a take-charge attitude – the type of personality required to make it to the top in the fields of law and business. He is an astute businessperson and an asset in running the front office. But those attributes can also work against one if he or she does not have the wisdom to see beyond his or her limitations. The ego and stubborness required to be successful in law, finance, industry, etc. can also work against one who is unable to recognize one’s limitations and when to let others run the show.

He was eventually given such authority in both Oakland and New York and we can see from his track record that his running the show has actually been ruining the show – even if it meant just hiring those underneath him who believed in his analytical philosophies and cost-cutting measures. In Oakland, he was a close, personal friend of the owner. In New York, he was given an edict to keep the Wilpons financially afloat as a favor from their close personal friend, the commissioner. In between those stints, he has been associated only with the business end. For one who supposedly had a great track record and was an architect in Oakland, it is safe to believe other teams would be knocking down his door in order to get him. That, as we know, did not happen.

Brain: trade both Wright and Dickey to gain 3 or 4 top prospects. In a perfect world, they receive their future starting catcher, right and left fielder, and another starting pitcher. All ML ready by 2014 when all bad contracts are off the books and Sandy could then fill in the blanks through free agency. This team would have a solid starting rotation in place already.

Niese
Harvey
Wheeler
Gee
Colin Mc, prospect through trade, or free agent signing

Hopefully, they’ll be able to have enough offense to support their starters. Wilmer Flores should be ready to take over third by 2014. The bullpen, anchored by Parnell, Familia, and Mejia should hold onto leads.

Heart- sign both Wright and Dickey, wait for bad contracts to expire and use the thirty million or so available to field a competitor. This team has a better starting rotation.

Remember, the “brain” option would make a huge amount of funds availiable to sign some great bats. I don’t see how they wouldn’t be a better option that’s much younger and has zero bad contracts.

2015 should see Brandon Nimmo and Micheal Fulmer and others like Adlerin Rodriguez ready to contribute as well.

So we can say he’s been successful. Hip hip hooray!!!

I applaud him for finally realizing what many said here…
Especially where the Reyes dealings were concerned

Seem as if the Worm has maybe turned…..

Some of us fans care more about having a winning team than Wright retire as a Met. This team has to be in the playoff hunt next year or it proves Sandy has kept us in neutral and was only good at letting contracts run out. And before anyone goes crazy about being in the playoff hunt, that’s basically being .500 come September. If that’s too much to ask, then you need to make your expectations higher.

Sign Wright if you’re going to add talent to him and be a competitive team now. Keepign payroll at $95-100MM in 2013 is not adding talent to Wright. And since we’re committing to a mid-market payroll, I think the better option is trade Wright for hitting prospects, and invest his $16MM salary in two starting cabler OFs.

Now, if they go smart (my opinion again of course) and trade them both (if they can get high quality just about ML ready guys at positions of need), then you will see major changes (beyond those 2 obvious ones) since that will start a lot of dominoes falling, and would actually free up $ if they wanted to sign a FA or trade for a significant contract.

I’ll be very surprised if we see ‘drastic’ roster changes for 2013. Can’t see how that can happen given the financial situation. Not unless they start trading from a depth I still see as thin. Goes w/o saying tough that if Wright and/or Dickey can’t be extended, I believe we’ll see trades involving them. Beyond that, I’m not so confident. Not this off season anyway.