IronMonkee

How have we gotten 20 comments in and nobody has commented on the spray chart looking very similar to a certain ex-catcher current first baseman?

That's simply incorrect. He's never participated in the top of the market, but he picked up a whole bunch of FA crap in his first go as GM. And it was always right away, we didn't get Livan Hernandez and Rondell White before spring training.

You're missing my point, when he is getting free agents he gets them ASAP, Hammer, Jamie Carrol, Rondell White and all the crap he picked up in the mid 2000s. He gets his shopping list and gets it done. TR has never waited to see who goes on clearance. So that he'd jump on what he wants early is sticking to form, not being abnormally aggressive. It gets missed because we aren't used to seeing him make it rain at all, but he's buying what he wants early, same as always.

Late to the party, so this probably won't get read. I take issue with the Terry Ryan was more aggressive than usual train of thought. TR spent more, and bought more expensive things and usual, but he has never waited out the market. It seems to me he has always acted quickly to pick up pieces. If TR was going to pick up pitchers, it was always going to be ASAP. I don't get where people are seeing that as breaking from form. Did we all forget that Bill Smith was the one that waits out the market?

I don't know how I feel about a sample size of 1, but I do hope you're right.