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Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder
The way I look at this, they just wasted perfectly good at bats for young outfielders like Kamei and Yano. Not only that, but they traded away two of their second basemen, since Nishi was dealt to Yokohama. Part of me thinks the only reason they even went after Tani was to get more star power on the team to help ratings and media hype.
It's still early in the off-season and the Giants have already given Lee a ridiculous contract, possibly lost Kokubo, signed 37 year old Noriyoshi Ohmichi, dumped two prospects, gave away Hiroshi Satoh to Rakuten, and traded away an all star second baseman. Yikes. This isn't even counting the huge blunders during the season like signing George Arias, trading 27 year old Shinsuke Yamada for 34 year old Takuya Kimura, and the whole Kuwata debacle. This team really needs some front office changes.