Gammons has been kind of useless for trade speculation. He’s a tool of the all the sources who feed him inside dope and jargon, allowing him to talk about the way Edgar Martinez stays inside his swing, and whatnot. But in spite of that he used to be fun to read.
This Q+A is so unrelentingly wishy-washy that it’s unbearable. So have the last few. Jordan and Schuerholz are right? The Braves and the Mets are the teams to beat? It goes on and on.
It is a sign of thoughtfulness and perhaps intelligence to refrain from making stupid, bold statements for the sake of stirring controversy. But the man who can see both sides of the issue has to go out of his way to explain what the issues are, so the reader has the ammo to make up her or his own mind.
Gammons isn’t doing that these days.