The way the system is set-up, the big market teams are making the most money by far thanks to their local TV deals. The comp draft pick is a relatively minor bone to throw to the poors so they will keep playing along with a system rigged heavily to profit the biggest organizations.
One hesitation and Bonifacio beats it out... nothing wrong with that play. The problem in the inning was our best hitting striking out with the bases loaded. It is much dumber to rely on a mistake by an opposing major leaguer in order to have success than having a good hitter not make an out. The problem with your theory here is that Bonifacio isn't really a good hitter, at least not outside the month of April this year. I wasn't talking about Bonifacio, I was talking about rondon placing the blame on our best hitter striking out.
One hesitation and Bonifacio beats it out... nothing wrong with that play. The problem in the inning was our best hitting striking out with the bases loaded. It is much dumber to rely on a mistake by an opposing major leaguer in order to have success than having a good hitter not make an out.
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The gnashing of teeth and rending of garments is in response to all the 90 loss seasons. Cespedes is just another brick in the wall, but that doesn't mean fans who actually care about results of the major league team are not allowed to wish they signed him. Or does it?
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I'm guessing that was about how, if they had Cespedes, Jackson is less likely to be called up and be exposed and would still have the reputation of a pretty good prospect doing fine at AAA, thus, a tradeable commodity.
Didn't have to be a building block to justify signing him; given the Cubs' needs and the money not spent a solid OF worth his contract would have been a nice pick up. It just seems a bit much to dismiss him as "meh" when the Cubs could have and should have walked away with both him and Soler, especially since such moves would have been more in line with the rhetoric they were spouting at the time. sure, he was really cool in 2012 but who knows, he could very well have meant the difference between having Kris Bryant and Colin Moran right now i'm over Cespedes That doesn't show much faith in this front office to be any good at drafting. He could also be the difference between having Scheirholtz and Cespedes right now.
Didn't have to be a building block to justify signing him; given the Cubs' needs and the money not spent a solid OF worth his contract would have been a nice pick up. It just seems a bit much to dismiss him as "meh" when the Cubs could have and should have walked away with both him and Soler, especially since such moves would have been more in line with the rhetoric they were spouting at the time. Especially considering the difference it would make from the type of guys who are playing in the OF for the Cubs. That is a maker of difference.