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Joe Sheehan linked a couple of articles about the general strategy. And Tango Tiger linked one with some good comments too. Basically the number of college seniors drafted in rounds 5-10 confirms that teams stopped drafting based on talent after a couple rounds and then resumed after round 10 (when failure to sign didn't cost them part of their pool). Some seniors drafted in the 10th round were 40th round talents, according to the article. -
Because he was one of my favorite players and the [expletive] backwoods morons in charge completely ruined his career and called him a [expletive] for it. Probably this, yes.
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There's plenty of time to have some back and forth that most seniors will probably be offered below slot. That's why they were drafted where they were. They have to know this and the vast majority aren't going to haggle much over several thousand or tens of thousands.
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But you're a college senior with no place else to go. You want to risk haggling over 30K, when the team can haggle down their other underslot guys to get themselves under 5% over cap? I think Kyle's scenario only works for the seniors in the first 10 rounds.
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In his defense, Logan said "if you knew it was Roy Halladay." Only an idiot would give up on Roy Halladay at age 23, David.
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Only if jersey is doing it.
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Herp derp, never mind then. How would fans collude to drive ticket prices below market value? Specifically, how would we assign the tickets if price isn't the mechanism? The whole group would have to agree not to pay above X where X is less than some would pay on the open market. Works better when you have a population of 32 and no antitrust concerns.
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Cubs fans continue to ridicule LaTroy. Cruel, bukie. Just cruel.
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Um, how is stub hub below market value? Below face value, yes. But that online market is, by definition, market value.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/yanks_rip_stubhub_for_not_great_pMzrFDWAOsmwiTkHjYgiaP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business I don't see your point.
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You mean owners want to agree among themselves that they'll pay below market value to save themselves money? We should do this with ticket prices.
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So you take talent the first few/several rounds, use the next X number of rounds (depending on signability of the talented guys) on mediocre guys to make sure you're not penalized and then go get talent again after round 11? What a dumb [expletive] change to the rules.
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At this rate, in 2015, we're going to be using a 17-man pitching staff.
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17 and has trouble controlling his emotions. Well no one ever grows out of that. This draft is actually fun to follow.
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It's not his first brain cramp. It really won't hurt anything to bench him for a game in a meaningless season to make sure he doesn't forget how many outs there are in the future. make sure?
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Hahaha
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Speaking of DL, Cespedes and Morse came off, Dirks went on. With the trade from Friday, I think my roster is legal again.
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But that's not a rule change that can be made mid-season. Too many people have already made roster moves (or not made moves) based on the DL rules. You can't change course mid-year. I tend to think 3 spots strikes the right balance.
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Unless Wilson gets 70 every time out, I don't have any decent players
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It's June 2 Tim. You still haven't played me yet.
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b/c i'm not going to trade it to you
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With dusty at the helm, there's no limit to their stupidity.
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Virtually half of my team is on my trading block. I don't want to move Wilson or Cespedes unless I'm blown away, but almost anyone else is available.
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I get what you're saying truffle, but my only slam dunk quality keeper right now is Wilson so I don't want to trade him. I went into this year with 0 great keepers (not knowing Hamilton's relapses this winter would improve his play) and that's no way to build a team. Now over half my team is exempt and my prospects are significantly improved. I'd love to upgrade my prospects but it's not like I have all the crap I had a few months ago. Unless someone gives me Bundy or Bauer or something, the improvement isn't going to be huge.
