Rank your GMs

[Guest Edgy DC]

This guy does.

His standards seems a little inconsistent (surprise!) but it's a fun exercise. I'd like to see a little more about which transactions particularly damn/redeem the men.

[metirish]

Jim Hendry is rated as the 16th best GM,based on what?,his moves this off-season it looks like,I'd rate Dave Dombrowksi higher based as much on his work as the Marlins GM as his great work with the Tigers.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It doesn't seem a "best right NOW!!!!" list so much as a list of who has the best legacy among the guys curently working. So younger guys slide back, even as he confesses repsect for them. He seems restrained with pushing short-tenured guys too far based on little results.

It's not so much Omar in the middle of the pack that surprised me, so much as Epstein being tenth.

[Farmer Ted]

Giving bonus points to Cashman because "no job in baseball carries with it as much stress and pressure as that of Yankees GM" just doesn't fly with me. He has a $200+ payroll the last three seasons and choked against the Red Sox and got skunked by the Angels and Tigers.

[Frayed Knot]

Another view from Fox Sports' Dayn Perry

[RealityChuck]

Farmer Ted wrote: Giving bonus points to Cashman because "no job in baseball carries with it as much stress and pressure as that of Yankees GM" just doesn't fly with me. He has a $200+ payroll the last three seasons and choked against the Red Sox and got skunked by the Angels and Tigers.

You're right. Cashman didn't have a single clutch hit during those games.

[Guest Edgy DC]

As Marcus didn't really rank Moore and Byrnes, the biggest disagreements come on Gillick and Sabean, which makes some sense. I tend towards Perry's rank, I think. It's hard to give Sabean too much credit when he couldn't consistently find big-league hitters to hit behind Bonds.

GM	Team	Perry Rank	Marcus Rank	Difference	Average
Schuerholz	ATL	1	2	1	1.5
Jocketty	STL	2	3	1	2.5
Beane	OAK	4	1	3	2.5
Ryan	MIN	3	6	3	4.5
Dombroski	DET	6	7	1	6.5
Epstein	BOS	5	10	5	7.5
Cashman	NYY	11	4	7	7.5
Towers	SDP	7	11	4	9
Gillick	PHI	15	5	10	10
Williams	CHW	8	13	5	10.5
Shapiro	CLE	13	9	4	11
Minaya	NYM	9	14	5	11.5
Stoneman	LAA	12	12	0	12
Sabean	SFG	17	8	9	12.5
Beinfest	FLA	10	17	7	13.5
Melvin	MIL	14	18	4	16
Ricciardi	TOR	20	15	5	17.5
Purpura	HOU	18	20	2	19
Hendry	CHC	25	16	9	20.5
Byrnes	ARI	16	26	10	21
Bowden	WAS	24	19	5	21.5
Moore	KCR	19	30	11	24.5
Colletti	LAD	21	28	7	24.5
Friedman	TBD	22	27	5	24.5
Flanagan	BAL	26	23	3	24.5
Littlefield	PIT	27	24	3	25.5
O'Dowd	COL	29	22	7	25.5
Bavasi	SEA	30	21	9	25.5
Daniels	TEX	23	29	6	26
Krivsky	CIN	28	25	3	26.5

[Farmer Ted]

Dayn Perry, I'm reading your mind.

[nymr83]

]Giving bonus points to Cashman because "no job in baseball carries with it as much stress and pressure as that of Yankees GM" just doesn't fly with me. He has a $200+ payroll the last three seasons and choked against the Red Sox and got skunked by the Angels and Tigers.

the playoffs arent his fault, but theres no way he should be top 10, he doesnt have to build a team under the same budget constraints as 20-25 of the other teams.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, I'd never say, "no way" because that would pretty much disqualify Omar from ever reaching.

Most damning to Cashman is that his team has been champ-less since 2000, when it started perhaps being more his team than Bob Watson's team.

[metirish]

I think Cashman defenders might say that it's truely only been his team for the last two seasons,he had to contend with the Tampa people before.

[metirish]

I'm not defending him.

[Frayed Knot]

It's kinda tough to judge Cashman since the NYY (read: Steinbrenner)notion of a GM differed from most others during much of his tenure. George believed in "creative tension" and often had his 'Tampa office' making moves that were sometimes directly opposed to what Cashman and Stick Michael were trying to do in NYC.
So while some of the moves made during his time can be directly attributed to him, other were made despite his say-so and even some made completely without his knowledge.

Supposedly that all changed (and, by all appearances, it has) after he inked his latest contract two seasons ago now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, but to Hell with the Tampa people. Steinbrenner interferes when he's not banished, we know that. Either Yankee GMs are subject to judgment like others or they're immune.