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How has AA shown a big ego?
By taking his ball and going home because he's unwilling to work with Shapiro.
How has AA shown a big ego?
By taking his ball and going home because he's unwilling to work with Shapiro.
He's not obliged to work with Shapiro. He had pretty much free reign over the Jays and if he saw working with Shapiro as a demotion then so be it. Shapiro coming into the first meeting with the team and blowing AA up for trading prospects shows a lot more of an ego to me than a guy who doesn't sign a contract that isn't in his best interests.By taking his ball and going home because he's unwilling to work with Shapiro.
He's not obliged to work with Shapiro. He had pretty much free reign over the Jays and if he saw working with Shapiro as a demotion then so be it. Shapiro coming into the first meeting with the team and blowing AA up for trading prospects shows a lot more of an ego to me than a guy who doesn't sign a contract that isn't in his best interests.
Is that really what happened, or just what was reported?
I think it's just more along the lines of Shapiro being more of a baseball ops guy than Beeston was, wanting to have more input on player decisions than AA was comfortable sharing.
Here's hoping Lacava and Shapiro can co-exist.....I see no reason why they can't, and am optimistic that the on-field product won't skip a beat.
It just worries me that an entire fanbase was so sold on AA over a two month span, after years of mediocrity, that they won't give Shapiro a fair shot.
It wasn't just a 2 month span. He made good moves his entire tenure. Yeah, I'd love to have the Dickey trade back but all in all he took a mostly garbage roster and re tooled it into something good. Shed a hilariously terrible contract in wells somehow and signed Bautista and EE to deals that are well under market value. The results just started coming this year, but it wasn't a fluke.
Sounds like a bitter Jays fan who knows nothing about the Indians, or baseball in general. I don't think you have an idea of how the game works.
How many people are there available in baseball who have overseen teams that have been regularly competitive and won? Hell, how many people period?
how many gm's get 15 years and field a decent team a handful of times? the indians were consistently terrible with shapiro running the team, again how did the blue jays decide he should have full power over the team?