Comments on: Law: Steve Phillips nearly traded Wright for Jose Cruz Jr

By: starz31

starz31 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:13:29 +0000

he also views production assistants as assets as well.

By: starz31

starz31 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:49:09 +0000

haha well said.

By: wnymetsfan

wnymetsfan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:38:22 +0000

That is an insult to Todd.

By: wnymetsfan

wnymetsfan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:32:30 +0000

Phillips has previously admitted to seeing minor league players as essentially assets to be spent to better the ML club.

By: methead

methead — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:07:15 +0000

Yes I stand corrected. I will say the poor contracts resulted in loss draft picks which hurt the system.

By: dykstraw

dykstraw — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:48:55 +0000

another important point: ricciardi is a moron and i want him nowhere near this organization

By: kd bart

kd bart — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:42:26 +0000

Steve is no judge of talent in and out of baseball.

By: gameball

gameball — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:34:31 +0000

Phillips gets WAY too much credit for the teams of the late 90s. He was strictly an “executive” GM, a deal-closer and the negotiating “face” of the team.

The real builders of those teams were Bobby V. and Asst GM Minaya. Listening to Bobby discuss new acquisitions throughout his tenure as mgr, it was clear that he had an unusually high degree of input while Minaya was with the team, and zero input after Minaya left.

Listening to Phillips discuss baseball, then or now, it’s clear he doesn’t have the acumen to have built those teams.

By: JohantheMan

JohantheMan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:20:59 +0000

i thought that myself when reading this haha

By: starz31

starz31 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:12:23 +0000

So he ALWAYS was a strikeout machine…jk lol