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  1. Ennder
    Melvin never expected Fielder to accept and he could be pretty sure K-Rod would accept so this all means nothing.
  2. Ennder
    I wouldn't want Hawkins back for free much less for money so this is good news for me.
  3. Ennder
    They certainly have to put someone on the roster who can play the position every day if it turns out McGehee struggles continue. You can't go into next year counting on him as the answer. There has to be a clear cut plan B before the season starts.
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    He probably should have been in already but I can't help but think his commentating and personal struggles and recent death have more to do with this than anything which is sad. Then again if Dawson is in just about anyone deserves it.
  5. Ennder
    I'm sure Hanley doesn't want to move to 3B but I'm sure that moving to accommodate one of the bigger FA in baseball will ease the complaints too. Reyes is way too risky to sign for 6 years though so glad the Brewers didn't do it.
  6. Ennder
    I can't answer your question but I know from past stories about smaller market teams who win it that it is a huge number and the go for it mantra is definitely worth it if you happen to win it all.
  7. Ennder
    This is the kind of thing I was afraid, the Cubs finally understanding baseball.
  8. Ennder
    Pitching WAR is very suspect in general, the defensive part of positional WAR is pretty shaky. Nice list, some names I didn't expect to see in there.
  9. Ennder
    I fully expect them to be looking for a new manager within the next 2 seasons. This seems like a disaster in waiting.
  10. Ennder
    If he turns things around we can trade for him mid season, can't think of any other reason the Royals would want to spend money on a RP since they aren't likely to compete yet.
  11. Ennder
    I bet the guy who voted him 10th voted Upton #1.
  12. Ennder
    I have no issue at all with picking the player who went to the playoffs when you are in a coin flip situation and that is what this really is.
  13. Ennder
    It won't change your argument much but this is most certainly the case in baseball. Teams that think they need to rebuild sell off all of their good players and go into low price mode and put the money into their draft and minor league teams. A large percentage of the lowest payroll teams aren't really interested in winning (not all of them though). I'd also be a bit dubious about using stats back to 1998 considering how many changes aimed at fixing competitive balance have happened since then. More certainly can be done to make baseball more balanced, a cap is just one way to go about it, not the only way. An NFL style cap would ruin the game imo.
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    Yeah I obviously messed up my post. In the NL you make some small decisions about pitching around the 8th hitter and maybe once every 4 or 5 games you make a harder choice on whether or not to PH for a pitcher or not. It adds some strategy but it isn't this huge jump in strategy that people want to make it out to be. To me the most important part of the discussion comes down to player safety and realistic situations. No baseball player can realistically stay sharp enough to hit at a major league level when they only get to bat every 5th game and every year a dozen pitchers in the NL get hurt running the bases or swinging. The argument that everyone needs to play offense and defense has a little merit, I mean baseball is the only game where you can't sub players in and out at will so it is kind of a unique sport in general and you do want to keep some of that uniqueness.
  15. Ennder
    That isn't how most sports cap work though, most sports almost every team lives at the cap. That would be setting the baseball cap at like $75M or something right now. As for large market teams always having advantage it is simply how it has panned out in every sport. Players will play for less because of the other benefits that come with playing for the larger market or more popular teams. You can try to minimize the advantage but it is always there.
  16. Ennder
    I think Parra got hurt and like many pitcher injuries they show up on the stat sheet before they show up in the training room. Unless Fielder did something that caused the injury I find it hard to blame things on him.
  17. Ennder
    There are competitive balance issues, but there are competitive balance issues in the NBA, NFL and NHL as well. Just throwing a cap on things doesn't make it go away and there are other ways to go about fixing it. I prefer revenue sharing type methods and salary floors rather than a salary cap. I'd rather a team like the Brewers be able to go 'over' the cap for a few years when they think they have a window to be good. The large market teams are always going to have an advantage no matter what, what you want to target is the low and mid market teams being competitive with each other. If they are going to set a cap I'd hope it is a cap where most teams don't live at the cap and have to constantly fight with it. The cap would really be there just to curb the top 5 or 6 teams, that I could live with in baseball.
  18. Ennder
    There is no good reason major league pitchers should have to hit, so this leading to the DH is a good thing in my book. Even good hitters struggle to hit well after some time off, there is no reason some guy who doesn't get enough reps should be asked to try to hit once every 5 days. Traditionalist doesn't always mean good for the game. Yes the DH adds a very small amount of strategy to the game (I can't stress enough how little it really adds) but it also adds a lot of injuries and an unfair playing field. The sooner the leagues are the same one way or the other the better and I think if you look at the game with fresh eyes the clear choice is the DH in both leagues.
  19. Ennder
    You forget the part where almost all of those Packer players are still under their initial contract, I wouldn't use them as a prime example of how the sport is 'supposed' to work. You just can't compare the sports the way people are, players get drafted in the NFL and make an impact the same year, that kind of thing just doesn't happen in baseball. It is much harder to live with just your own players. the flame out rate is also much higher in baseball. To use the Brewers as an example though a couple years ago they put a lineup on the field that was 7 home grown players, it isn't like baseball teams never keep their own guys either. Baseball can do plenty of things to help competitive balance without adding a cap, that is just putting a bandaid on things. A salary cap is not going to suddenly make the league 'fair' for the Yankees, they will have a large advantage no matter what, just like the east coast teams in the NFL have an advantage since players will sign there for less because they get extra money under the table. A big part of the reason the Packers have so many home grown players is nobody wants to come to Green Bay as a free agent, they just do a great job of working around it.
  20. Ennder
    Kotsay is a poor defensive player who can't hit lefties and really doesn't even hit righties very well either. He is an ok 5th OF if you are just using him to PH now and again late in games but if he is getting more than 100 PA something is wrong with your team. Not really sure how he makes any sense for a team like the Padres who aren't likely to be competitive this year.
  21. Ennder
    I don't see how moving a team to the NL can look like favoritism, I'd think more teams would want to move tot he AL than stay in the NL. Hopefully a couple high profile pitchers will get hurt while batting and they'll finally add the DH to both leagues so we don't have to watch pitchers pretend that anyone can hit major league pitching when they only get to bat once every 5 days.
  22. Ennder
    This is certainly true, every time Hart does a sliding attempt I think he is going to hurt himself.
  23. Ennder
    I didn't read that thread but I'd guess it was a bunch of people that are wrong. Visually he looks like a poor fielder and I've never seen him rated as even average by any metric. Braun is not a good defensive player. Out of all the LF in baseball with at least 400 PA last year only 6 of them had a lower UZR/150 than him. I think if people are saying he is pretty good 'for a LF' they are probably using the stats incorrectly assuming they were backing up the opinion with stats. Of course part of that is how wildly inaccurate his arm is which probably wouldn't help much in RF.
  24. Ennder
    The Cardinals could lose half their team and a lot of 'experts' would pick them just because they won it this year. Certainly no reason to think the Cardinals aren't in the mix of playoff teams though, even if Pujols walks they have to be a consideration.
  25. Ennder
    I would say Hart has a lot of positives but not his arm strength. I'm sure Braun would be fine in RF, the fewer balls that get hit to him the better in general.
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