Quote:When you look at the Gene vs Dave signs...

Highest paid under Gene is the top two M. Lewis & Poz http://overthecap.com/teamcap.php?Team=J...&Year=2014

over a 4 mil difference to the highest paid under dave Zane and then Chad Henne, Bryant, Clemons, etc

If you compared the drafting, salaries, free agency moves to me it seems as if Dave Caldwell is a 100 times better GM than Gene Smith, but it is too early to tell...

 

That completely ignores the fact that there's a rookie cap in place that wasn't there for a portion of Gene Smith's tenure so some of those rookie deals are going to skew the numbers significantly. 

 

Caldwell barely spent anything last year in free agency because there wasn't any point.  It was a team that was rebuilding, and they were going to do so through the draft, so any free agents we got last year were on the lower end of the scale for the most part, and signed short-term contracts. 

 

You have to put things in context.

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