Better GM?

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John Schuerholz i guess. Omar takes shots in the dark really

Minaya by a looooong shot. Valentin, Maine, Chavez, El Duque, Oliver, Mota, Williams etc.

^^ etc etc etc

minaya..

Schuerholz...he develops his players and makes hella smart moves while Minaya just spends a load of money and hopes it works.

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braves GM

Ummm no read my post above

Tim Hudson
Sheffield for Brian Jordan and O'Dalis Perez
Matt Diaz for nothing
Wickman (ERA under 1 as a Brave) for an A catcher
Getting Estrada for Millwood
great farm team...
and putting together a winning team for 14 straight years

And how many World Series?

Braves 1
Mets 0

anyway, what measures how good a team is better? a 5 game division series or 162 games?

Yeah and who was the GM for the Mets? Not Omar.

The goal of every team is the world series. Not winning the division and choking.

Yeah and how many times has Minaya missed?

BCB- don't forget Wright

And the Braves have won more over the last 15 years :huh:

What? :huh:

The old Mets GM should be shot and burned, Trading away Bay and Kazmir. Who was he steve phillips? because that would answer a lot of the smack talk he talks on BT

But Schuerholz was the GM of a team that had 14 consecutive winning seasons

So if the Mets don't win the World Series this year they were a failure?

Of course the goal is to win the world series, but it's a lot of luck. It's a 5 game series..... you can't tell how good a team is in that long.... the Pirates swept the Mets in 3 games, anyone can win a series in baseball.... Royals swept the Red Sox, etc.....

You are missing the point. Minaya has been on the Mets for 2 years. You can't count the years before.

Agreed.

But, I bet you, it won't take 14 years for Minaya to win 1 World Series.

The World Series is luck? Tell that to the Yankees.

Jaret Wright...

No this

Okay. in theory the 116 is better because of more wins, but technically the winning of the world series makes you the best in the league. it just means the real best team had bad time or something...

Minaya.. I don't know about what he did in the Expos but he sure did a fabulous job on the Mets. Trading Seo for Duaner Sanchez was another thing and getting all those star players was his key to success.

My answer is the Braves GM for winning the division for the past 15 years.

And I agree with MetsRule that the best team in baseball wins the World Series. Beating the best teams in baseball compared to padding wins against the Royals is a better way to determine which teams are for real.

Did you trash it?

Since when does choking have anything to do with the GM?

You weren't here for the entire debate.

yeah check the other poll, it was split cause it was off topic

I'd say the Braves GM has done a better job. Mets did well at cashing in on the Marlins firesale this year for sure and managed not to give up Pelfrey and Milledge to us. But winning 14 years in a row says something about a GM. I know Minaya hasn't been with the Mets long but that shouldn't down the fact of the 14 division titles the Braves won. The Braves have also usually had some good talent in their minor leagues as well.

Schuerholz for sure, he's given his team 14 straight division outings (if he was the GM during all those years.)

Exactly, JS came in 1991, turned the last place 1990 team into the NL Champions, but didn't destroy the future, they won the next 14 years... plus the Braves never had a payroll over 100 million

Exactly, he's another guy who knows how to make a non Sox/Yankees payroll team competitive year in and out.

Then how do you say Larry Banifest is the best GM in Baseball?

Mets have 97 wins, and the Yankees have 97 wins.

Mets have half the payroll.

Jim Duquette, That Kazmir trade was great. ;)

Haha

I'm a Mets fan so I have to go with Minaya.

Good points made there