Ned Colletti Like him or hate him??

After reading D-Town07's thread entitled "as I was watching the game"  he went on a rant about Ned, so I am running with his perfectly articulated statement and I am creating this one. 

Do you or do you not like what Ned has done so far?  Simple question, but I want in depth responses with arguments, for and against.  Here is what Ned has done so far with the Dodgers.

Dec 2005 Signed Brett Tomko 2 yrs.

Dec 2005 Signed Kenny Lofton 1yr

Dec 2005 Signed Nomar Garciaparra 1yr

Dec 2005 Signed Bill Mueller 2 yrs

Dec 2005 Signed Sandy Alomar 1 yr

Dec 2005 Signed Traded Milton Bradley and Antonio Perez to OAK for Andre Ethier

Dec 2005 Signed Rafael Furcal 3 yrs

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Jan 2006 Signed Ramon Martinez Minor league contract

Jan 2006 Traded Edwin Jackson and Chuck Tiffany to TB for Danys Baez and Lance Carter

Jan 2006 Traded Duaner Sanchez and Steve Schmoll to NYM for Jae Seo and Tim Hamulack

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Feb 2006 Takashi Saito Minor league contract

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Mar 2006 Sign Jeff Kent contract extention with option for 2008

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June 2006 Traded Dioner Navarro and Jae Seo, to TB for Mark Hendrickson, Toby Hall and cash

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July 2006 Traded Sandy Alomar jr to CWS for B.J. LaMura

July 2006 Traded Odalis Perez, Blake Johnson, Julio Pimentel and cash to KC for Elmer Dessens

July 2006 Traded Danys Baez, Willy Aybar and cash to ATL for Wilson Betemit

July 2006 Traded Cesar Izturis to CHC for Greg Maddux

July 2006 Traded Joel Guzman, Sergio Pedroza to TB for Julio Lugo

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Aug 2006 Traded Jhonny Nunes to WASH for Marlon Anderson

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Nov 2006 Re-signed Nomar Garciaparra 2 yrs

Nov 2006 Signed Juan Pierre 5 yrs

Nov 2006 Signed Randy Wolf 1 yr

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Dec 2006 Signed Jason Schmidt 3 yrs

Dec 2006 Signed Luis Gonzalez 1 yr

Dec 2006 Signed Mike Lieberthal 1 yr

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Jan 2007 Re-signed Mark Hendrickson 1 yr

Jan 2007 Signed Rudy Seanez minor league contract

Jan 2007 Signed Chin-Hui Tsao 1 yr

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Feb 2007 Traded Elmer Dessens to MIL for Brady Clark

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June 2007 released Brady Clark

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July 2007 signed Roberto Hernandez

July 2007 released Marlon Anderson

July 2007 Traded Wilson Betemit for Scott Proctor

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Aug 2007 Taded cash to SF for Mark Sweeney

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Aug 2007 signed Shea Hillenbrand minor league contract

Aug 2007 signed David Wells remainder of season

Aug 2007 claimed Esteban Loaiza off waivers

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Oct 2007 designated Olmedo Saenz and Roberto Hernandez (refused and became FA)

Oct 2007 declined option on Mike Lieberthal

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Nov 2007 signed Terry Tiffee to minor league contract (Check out Tiffee's AAA numbers so far this year, crazy good)

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Dec 2007 Signed Andruw Jones 2yrs

Dec 2007 Signed Hiroki Kuroda 3yrs

Dec 2007 Signed Gary Bennett 1 yr

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Jan 2008 Re-signed Scott Proctor 1yr

Jan 2008 Released DJ Houlton

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Feb 2008 Re-Signed Rudy Seanez 1yr

Feb 2008 Re-Signed Mark Sweeney

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Mar 2008 released Rudy Seanez

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Apr 2008 Traded Eric Hull to BOS for Christian Lara and cash

Loads of junky moves, so whats the worst and whats the best?

Well, no surprise here....I think he is absolutely horrible.

Worst Non Signing: Greg Maddux
Worst Trade: Edwin Jackson and Chuck Tiffany for Baez and Carter.
Worst Signing: Juan Pierre and Jason Schmidt. Too hard right now to call it
Biggest Head Scratcher: Esteban Loiaza (so have no idea why)
Biggest What were you thinking signing: Grady Little as manager

Best signing: Kenny Lofton. LOL Ya, with all the money he has spent, only on Kenny Lofton was it actually worth it.
Best Trade: NONE! (Its a well known fact Ned had nothing to do with the Ethier trade)

Here is something for you all to chew on:

Going into the 2007 season, the Dodgers were coming off a disappointing sweep out of the playoffs. The only thing this team needed was a legitamate power threat. GO FIGURE!!!! So the big names on the market that year were Carlos Lee and Alfonso Soriano. Both played left field, perfect fit right? And to help matters, JD Drew opted out of his contract, freeing up 11.4 million for that year alone. But Ned had other ideas. He signed:

Mike Lieberthal for 1.150 million (For a back up catcher! He played in like 20 games!)
Nomar Garciaparra for 8.5 million (resigned him since Loney had only hit .342 in AAA)
Juan Pierre 8 million (only doing his yearly salary. But overall it was 5 year, 45 mil deal)
Randy Wolf 7.4 million (a guy coming off Tommy John Surgery)
Jason Schmidt 15.7 million (overall 3 year 47 million)
Luis Gonzalez 7.1 million (there was our big left fielder!!!!!)
Mark Hendrickson 2.9 million (And no, thats not a misprint!)
Randy Seanez 700K
Tsao 330K

So just for that upcoming 2007 season, Ned Colletti...Brain Child....spent a total of 51.78 million dollars.

One more time okay. Ned Colletti spent 51.78 million dollars on 2 relievers, 3 starting pitchers, a left fielder, center fielder, and back up catcher.

Carlos Lee signed for 6 years, 100 million
Alfonso Soriano 8 years, 136 million.
Not so bad anymore huh?

If Ned had relied more on his farm that his scouts built, that Logan White built, that De Jon Watson had built, that even Dan Evans had helped build.....just think about it. Ned has got to go, no matter what they do this season. And so far, it doesnt look good for us if the first 2 weeks are any kind of tell tale sign.

DTown argues that Colletti wasn't involved in the trade for Ethier, but it came on his watch and that was a steal. LA got rid of its biggest head case (Milton Bradley) and got a star on the rise.

Any GM is going to have some deals work out and some that don't. No one is perfect.

But I will credit Colletti for getting the team some short-term help without preventing the young players from coming up as the long-term solution. And most of all, I credit Colletti for the deals he DIDN'T do. Everyone wanted Ethier or Kemp this last offseason. He didn't bite and Dodgers fans should be able to watch those guys lead this team for years to come.

"DTown argues that Colletti wasn't involved in the trade for Ethier, but it came on his watch and that was a steal. LA got rid of its biggest head case (Milton Bradley) and got a star on the rise."

Its a well known fact that Colletti had nothing to do with the trade. Even Andre has given credit to the scout. Ethier has said Logan White was like an adoptive father growing up. Learn your facts there partner.

"But I will credit Colletti for getting the team some short-term help without preventing the young players from coming up as the long-term solution."

So you liked how Ned signed Nomar to block James Loney? Or how about Luis Gonzalez to block Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp? Or what about the short team help signing of Juan Pierre, when Kenny Lofton does the same thing but only wants a one year deal and 3 million. And lets take it farther, could our outfield situation be different if Juan Pierre wasnt taking at bats from Matt Kemp? Sure sounds like blockage to me. Or how about the