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I do not like taking the power to control away from a GM. The concept above is already being covered as well. Since the GM of the Mets did not do anything over the offseason and had plenty of $ to fill holes, HE WAS FIRED. We don't need more oversight than that. If more oversight is given and we start allowing and not allowing certain things, then GMs won't stay. DME is a great example of this type of league. There are new GMs every day it seems and most of the core managers on this site are not in that league. Now there is very little action at all in that league, that is not the only issue, but it is a contributing issue. Once that occurs, FGM loses it's foundation, what it is built on., the Reason that it is the league that we all stay in and identify as the best league on the site. Please be careful with messing with something that is working. We are addressing the rare case, maybe 3 or 4 franchises are in this situation, don't ruin a league over the minority. If we get good GMs for the spots, it will resolve itself.
I could be dead wrong on this, but I think some of you are looking at this with rose-colored glasses. In my opinion, The TC acting under the guidelines specified in the league rules basically approved some really lop-sided deals, otherwise the Mets and many other teams would not be in the dire situation they are today. Many bad trades were approved as long as some top 100 prospects were involved. As someone who has had a Baseball America subscription since 1985, I can tell you first-hand that the vast majority of them don't amount to a hill of beans. It will be very challenging for the bad teams to improve any time soon with free agency not providing any front-line players last year. Also, most smart GMs find ways to sign and/or trade their key players. Believe me, if the Mets were only a few moves away, I'm pretty sure Dan would have jumped all over them. The truth is exactly as Dan said it. This is becoming a league of haves and have-nots. To make matters worse, unlike real life, some bad teams have virtually no top prospects due to the short-sightedness of their prior GMs.I do not say all this to depress anyone or suggest that the league is not strong overall. I say this as a wake-up cry for us not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
The TC has improved... One thing we could do is instead of the two week no moves period... Have several of a new GM's first moves be reviewed by the EC.