Jeff Passan from Yahoo! Sports released his list of winners and losers from this year’s winter meetings. Not surprisingly, the Dukes situation was brought up in both columns. Tampa Bay was listed as a winner for getting rid of him, while Jim Bowden received some critiques for acquiring the troubled player.Here’s what Passan had to say:
“Jim Bowden: The most dangerous qualities a baseball player can exhibit simultaneously are ability and disappointment. Because more than anything, people around baseball love to fix things. They love to believe they can fix a flat curveball, and that they can find the hitch in that long swing, and, in Bowden’s case, that they can turn a monster into a mite. Elijah Dukes needs a coterie of good doctors, not the Washington Nationals’ GM trying to rescue him. If there’s an upside, it’s that Lastings Milledge will look like a choir boy in comparison.”
We sincerely hope that Dukes is given a zero tolerance policy and that the Nationals stick to it. It would be incredible if Dukes can turn his life around, but if he can’t, he needs to be shown the door.
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