If, over the winter, Dipoto decided that he would stock up on CF types and then cut the first guy who failed....then he's way ahead of the rest of us. But I don't think that was the case.  He had an OF vision and he was dang sure it was going to work.

It didn't...or wasn't.  I will applaud a fast-bold move, even though I'm not sure it was the right guy.

But the CF/LF failure was somewhat predictable.  The two guys he invested in have career OPS's of .673 and .661.  Neither reach .700 even with the split advantage vs. RHP.  Vs. lefties, they have career numbers of .573 and .607.  The chances that both would hit .700 this year were no better than both would hit .630.  THere was a predictable train wreck here. Maybe not of this magnitude, I suppose, but at least the odds were quite high for a derailment.

Dyson is at .575 overall, right now, BTW.  Do we tolerate that for the next 60 games, until mid-summer?  We sort of have to now.  I wouldn't mess with Haniger right now (I was really impressed with his 3-4 yesterday, even if they were just knocks...and even if the bunt wasn't a sacrifice) and it is questionable if we're going to go with either Heredia or Gamel in CF, fulltime.  Although Gamel would be fine.  But it would be tres interesting if Dipoto simply patted himself on the back for Segura, Motter and Haniger and divested himself of a 2nd CF mistake. 

That's the Doc Scenario (see above).  Keep swinging for the fences.

Now that would be very bold.  Go team.  

A: Ketel Marte, Austin Jackson, Dustin Ackley, Justin Ruggiano, Stefan Romero, James Jones, Shawn O'Malley and Brad Miller.

Q;Who played centerfield the year that JD arrived?

Jackson was passable...but the other guys speak to a question that confronts all of baseball: how do i find a guy who can chase the ball down in the middle of the outfield...but not melt in the batter's box?

The reason we got Martin in the first place is that the Rangers knew they had a better answer.  In Delino DeShields.  Now a benchie, and lucky to be that.  And then Carlos Gomez, currently getting on base less than 30% of the time.

So if JD decided he was going to get several draws on that deck, I'm fine with that.  

the culture establishment of PRODUCE, dangit.

I like this move. The lost potential hurts me, but - as I said in my prior comment - the A's Spanish commentators were blabbing all over the place yesterday about how much talent Martin has, and there are a number of teams hurting for a CF right now (Pirates, anyone?). He'll find a home, and I'm refusing to be surprised if there's enough of a line that we bring in something else shiny.

JeDi is good at bringing in something else shiny. Enough shiny things, some of them get tossed but some turn into Maniger.

Better than anything is Dipoto showing a willingness to change course. Quickly.

Dyson, LF, looked like a disaster in the making. A 71 wRC+ can survive in CF with defense and speed, but there's not enough speed on Rickey Henderson to bridge the OPS gap between a guy like Dyson and a guy like Braun, an actual LF.

Motter looks like our best option both in LF and at 1B, so hopefully Dipoto has just one more ace up his sleeve by midseason! Or, if Vogelbach or Heredia decide to take off, we'll be sittin in butter.

Many draws at the deck indeed. But more than anything else, Dipoto's evolution into Quickdraw McGraw, axing Martin 2 months quicker than the Aoki-flush may have saved the M's from falling 2 games short of the playoffs this season. Good on you, Dipoto.

Now is the time for Tank to declare himself adjusted to AAA and start hitting. The Ms are already playing 4 rookies, plus using one in the rotation. Time to smell the roses and the MLB(tm) smogasbord training table! Dyson and Heredia are holding your place for you. 

As for D.J. Peterson, since the 17th he's shown some life. The chance is right there to make Valencia redundant.

We don't need no stinkin' O'Neill...Maniger is two awesome players wrapped into one

Jarrod Dyson is third on the team in b-ref WAR and sixth by fWAR.

That's what D do.

Gallardo's xFIP is 3.86.

He's second in the rotation in WAR.

When someone like JeDi talks about 'top targets,' 'dream outfields,' or employs any other quotables, he's tipping his hand--like a fox.

It always boggles me that netizens (present company *GENUINELY* excluded here) will take public statements as de facto TRUTH and then build entire arguments around them being 100% representative of the speaker's thoughts.  And if there happens to be some sort of apparent conflict/incongruity between those statements and potentially laudable 'contingencies' then said netizens *generally* wrinkle their noses and point emphatically to the public statements (*seemingly* to quiet the cognitive dissonance generated between said public statements' *apparent* intent, and the reality of such contingencies--and they ALWAYS circle back to the public statements in an effort to discredit the possibility that, yes, this was All Part Of The Plan... /HeathLedger'sJoker).

I like (not hate) to be the one to break it to such people: public statements are just that, P U B L I C.  Did the British RAF *actually* believe that eating tons of carrots improves eyesight, or were they playing a misdirection game to hide how heavily they were leaning on radar at night to snipe German planes in WW2?  When MacArthur said 'I shall return,' do we take that to be a foolish declaration on his part--one which makes his eventual return not only predictable, but more easily contested--and a sign of slow-wittedness or do we take it to be the tip of an iceberg the rest of us can only guess at, in terms of how many contingent decisions stand at hair-trigger readiness to be made?

So when someone like JeDi says 'This is my DREAM outfield!!' I take it with rather less enthusiasm than most.  I don't DISbelieve him at all; I simply afford less *weight* to the statement than the commenters at other sites seem to, while firmly believing that he's only tipping the part of his hand that he thinks is beneficial to tip.  I'm not saying he *IS* lurking beneath the waves, trying to sucker unsuspecting 'unsinkable' passenger liners by exposing *just* enough of his plans and thoughts...I'm just saying that I wouldn't put it past the man, or any of his contemporaries, to do precisely that.

It's one thing to call shots, to make bold declarations, and to do one's best to follow through on seeing a given plan to fruition.  It's quite another to survive first contact with the enemy, at which point we all know the fate of even the best laid plans...

If you're in it to win it, you've got to be flexible.  I'm not following as closely as y'all, but JeDi has given me no reason to suspect he is somehow deficient in flexibility.  Personally, I've never SEEN a GM who appeared as flexible as him--not in Seattle, anyway.

Listening to Hyphen over the weekend before the DFA, it sounded like Leonydas became Eeyore, and Eeyore cannot hit .111 and stick around.