When it comes to trades, I don’t lean “pro Beane/Forst” or “anti Beane/Forst” so much as I try to analyze each deal at the time and judge it to be, as I see it, great, awful, or somewhere in between. So my opinions are not referendums on an administration, just on a given move.
I also try to separate myself from the emotional fan connection I may have to a given player — such as Sean Doolittle, my favorite Oakland Athletic on a team that has many players that I love. Well, that’s true after the first hour or two because if you trade my favorite player, no matter how good the deal is my initial response is going to be, “Fwke094$(@ sdk2& 37(#o3kfizl Khhhgghhhh!