Would you?

Hunsicker is OK, but overrated, IMO. (Don’t give him complete credit for the D-Rays; he isn’t the GM there, just a consultant.) Look, the Astros had their chance to get good GMs this last summer, and they blew it. Even setting aside some of my preferences for the GM job (e.g., DePodesta) who were not in the mix apparently, the Astros interviewed several candidates who probably would have been good GMs (Mozeliak who later became the GM in St. Louis and Logan White with the Dodgers). And maybe the worst front office mistake was letting Nolan Ryan go to the Rangers. If Ryan wanted a front office job (like president of baseball operations), why didn’t they offer it to him?

since you can get Hunsicker without trading Oswalt. I figure that is not really one of the choices but that’s the reality.

Maybe a Wade and the rights to Woody Williams for Hunsicker

Shows how bad people feel about Wade…

Wish Drayton could see this…

for one thing, a lot of it has to do w/ the fact that they’ve sucked so bad that they’ve been getting premium draft picks for years. Drafting wisely is still difficult, but we really don’t know what role Hunsicker’s played in that. I agree w/ clack that we had a legitimate shot to change the trajectory of this org last offseason w/ the choice of GM, but McLane and Tal Smith chose to stick w/ the old. Maybe b/c Purpura was sort of considered one of the new generation of GM’s it scared them, but I haven’t had any hopes for this team since we hired Wade.