Saturday, August 16, 2008
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The Nationals' failure to sign Aaron Crow is yet another strike against the
regime of embattled general manager Jim Bowden, whose name has popped up in
the investigation into embezzlement of signing bonuses in Latin America.
In full-on spin mode, Bowden now is claiming that Crow and his advisors
didn't give the Nationals any indication before the draft what it might take
for Crow to sign (even though this information was common knowledge in the
industry) and didn't provide a dollar figure until Aug. 12.
If the Nationals genuinely didn't know what Crow wanted, it was either
willful ignorance or the worst case of a signability analysis I've ever seen.
And if they weren't willing to go much over slot, they could have just taken
Arizona State's Brett Wallace (taken by the Cardinals at No. 13) or Long
Beach (Calif.) high school hitter Aaron Hicks (taken by the Twins at No. 14),
signed either for slot at No. 9 and made the plausible argument that they
took the best player available.
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