I thought yall liked him?

not a cbj fan but i cant speak for them

There are mixed feelings and as time passes, we will move towards appreciating what he had accomplished for a team that had been so bad the entirety of its existence. We had our four best seasons under him and torts. Once guys starting asking out and not resigning, he struggled to build a team. He chased some bad signings and made some overpayments for a team that wasn't ready to compete. In my opinion, he has always done very well on trades and recently has done well with draft picks, but he hasn't been able to pull that talent together. Throw in the terrible hirings of Larson and Babcock, the mismanagement of Jiricek, Johnson and Sillinger these past two years and it was clear it was time to move on. He has definitely set up the next management group for success, but his time in Columbus had expired years ago.

The right time to fire him was 2020 or 2021 when the genuinely decent team he built fell apart, but I can see why the team didn't with the pandemic uncertainty. This is a very, very conservative ownership and upper management (the guy in charge of the whole thing, Mike Priest, is the kind of bean-counter other bean-counters aspire to be). He's not had a good few years since Torts left, and he definitely should've been fired along with JD over the Babcock debacle. I've been a big Jarmo defender over the years, but I could not defend or forgive that.