Napoli Retires

[ten ocho recon scout]

On 12/8/2018 at 10:42 PM, Erstad Grit said:

Wowzers that article took shots at Angels (and rightly so)

 

"Persistent friction with skipper Mike Scioscia, though, who never quite seemed satisfied with Napoli’s work behind the plate, led the club to move Napoli in a bizarre 2011 swap with the Blue Jays, where the productive backstop was traded with outfielder Juan Rivera in exchange for the aging Vernon Wells, whose four years and $90MM in remaining salary placed him high on the list of least attractive assets in the game. "

 

This trade and the GMJ signing, it seemed this board was united they were terrible deals right when they happened 

That was the era it all started to unravel. We went from doing just about everything right to so much wrong.

[Lou]

he interviewed for a coaching job with the Cubs. he didn't get the job. 

f'n Maddon 

[Stradling]

It would be weird to hire the guy that hates the guy that you respect and credit for your position. 

[Docwaukee]

36 minutes ago, ten ocho recon scout said:

That was the era it all started to unravel. We went from doing just about everything right to so much wrong.

the GMJ deal was in 2006 and a stoneman special.  it was terrible but not anywhere on the level of the Vernon Wells deal.  

The Wells deal is equivalent to us trading Skaggs and Calhoun for Chris Davis.