Who is the worst GM is pro sports history?

[Billy Bibbit]

Whoever was responsible for the Herschel Walker trade. Google says his name is Mike Lynn.

[JackWhite]

Elgin Baylor

[Rubeskies]

Steve Philips. Small sample size but if he was given a couple more season I know he could've been the worst ever.

[metsandfinsfan]

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Steve Philips. Small sample size but if he was given a couple more season I know he could've been the worst ever.

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steve philips was really not that bad. He made a couple of clunkers, but he did turn hundley into cedeno and benitez and then turned cedeno into hampton. And he got us to the world series. So to call him one of the worst ever is ridiculous

[prohornblower]

Tim Purpura GM of the Astros was absolutely atrocious.

He traded cost-controlled players with professional experience: Willy Taveras, Jason Hirsh, and Taylor Buchholz for an over-paid, injured Jason Jennings. Because he dropped the ball on Pettitte and made a desperate move for a "#2 guy."

He also enjoys keeping guys like Morgan Ensberg, Brad Lidge, and Chris Burke until they have zero trade-value, then trading them or attempting to shop them.

The dude has like the complete opposite understanding of value, as Webster and humanity define it.

PM me when he dies in a grease fire, plz.

[modestmoose]

Matt Millen, it's not a competition:

1. Hired Marty Morninweg, who had never been a head coach before, and had ~1 year of experience calling plays as an OC after the first interview. Couldn't let him get away.
2. 3 of 4 top ten picks wasted, including two top 3, 2 on WR's who were out of the league within 3 years.
3. Signed Cory Bradford to deal with $3M bonus, cut him after season began. Then resigned midway through year anyway.
4. Bill Schroeder.
5. 4th round pick for Ty Detmer.
6. Damien Woody: largest contract ever (at the time) to an interior lineman, currently not a starter.
7. Traded Dre Bly, their only above average player in the secondary, on a relatively cheap one year deal for Tatum Bell (inactive) and George Foster (Benched due to shittyness).
8. Kalimba Edwards: high pick (3rd of 2nd round), never panned out (7 sacks/season is career high) then gave a $20M extension...
9. 4 of the 5 losingest active NFL players in SI two weeks ago were brought into the league by Millen.
10. In 7 years on the job has brought in 3 players who have made the pro bowl (Shaun Rogers, Dre Bly & Eddie Drummond) a total of 5 times. For comparison 8 Patriots are leading the pro bowl voting for their position this year alone.

Career Record:
Millen 30 -77 : .280% - the worst.

[PokrLikeItsProse]

After the great Paul Brown died in 1991, the ownership of the Cincinnati Bengals were taken over by his son Mike Brown, who did a heckuva job by doubling as general manager. He was the architect of a hideous franchise, trying to do the same job as his more talented father, until the Rooney Rule forced him luck into hiring Marvin Lewis and he finally made a good high-profile draft of a quarterback (Carson Palmer, after misfires such as David Klingler and Akili Smith).

[Dids]

Isiah's good drafts don't really make up for the other horrible mistakes. He drafted good players, but with no sense of trying to build a team, which is the same way he trades to get famous people no matter where they fit.

I can't think of anybody who has been worse in my lifetime.

I have no idea how you measure this, but I feel like at least 60% of GM's lifetime would be listed "bad"

[Franchise 60]

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Isiah's good drafts don't really make up for the other horrible mistakes. He drafted good players, but with no sense of trying to build a team, which is the same way he trades to get famous people no matter where they fit.

I can't think of anybody who has been worse in my lifetime.

I have no idea how you measure this, but I feel like at least 60% of GM's lifetime would be listed "bad"

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49 Shandon Anderson
51 Michael Doleac
4 Howard Eisley
32 Othella Harrington
20 Allan Houston
6 Maciej Lampe
34 Antonio McDyess
55 Dikembe Mutombo
50 Mike Sweetney
40 Kurt Thomas
2 Keith Van Horn
29 Slavko Vranes
21 Charlie Ward
35 Clarence Weatherspoon
30 Frank Williams

Can you tell me that the 03-04 Knicks were better than the current team? I hope he gets fired, but he isn't the worst GM in the history of sports.

I'd much rather have the team that they have now than the team he came into.

I guess I'm more from the school of thinking that the person who creates the mess that you can't get out of is worse than the person who can't get out of the mess he inherited.

[sandycove]

Here's a pair of modern beauties:

The Royals' Herk Robinson and Allard Baird