Steve Kelley Is An Idiot

I know that the title of my post is saying nothing new, but oh do I have to vent.

So I'm eating my breakfast this morning, while reading the Seattle Times. I get to the Sports section, and Steve Kelley has an article about why it was a mistake for the Mariners to retain Bavasi. I'm intrigued - he's all right with keeping McLaren, but Bavasi is the mistake? I start reading.

He opens by talking about what a mistake most of Bavasi's trades have been, focusing specifically on Asdrubal Cabrera. He scolds the M's for being in a "win now" mode last season, and for dumping young talented players.

Then at the end of the article, he advocates that we trade Jones and Clement, asking if Bavasi's quote about how they won't be traded "makes baseball sense."

So let me get this straight. Kelley's two main premises in the article are A) We shouldn't have traded Cabrera because now he's productive on another team, and B) Bavasi makes bad trades. Then he ends by arguing that Bavasi should deal away two of our most talented prospects.

Ugh.