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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Sure, you can come up with some scenarios where some teams would be disincentived to tank, but I don't think that's the net result of the proposal. Do you think this Cubs team would have been dissuaded by a one-year delay in the results of their multi-year tank? And teams like the White Sox or Padres who have always played the "try every year" game are now never going to have a real chance at a title unless they shut it down, tank, and build up a superteam. It basically turns MLB into the NBA.
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    I'm having trouble thinking of anything that comes closer to the description of "impractical suggestion that would be a nonstarter for owners" than "hey guys, do you want to put half your teams in an inferior league with a chance to move up" and "Hey guys, do you want to eliminate the unbalanced schedule that drives your attendance?"
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    dp
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    Oh god that's awful. All it takes is one dominant team and suddenly the championship is decided two months in advance and 20 or so teams have nothing to play for. The author thinks it discourages tanking, but it really makes it even more desirable. You need to be one of the top handful of teams to have a chance at a title. As it is right now, the 15th best team might as well play it out and take their shot, because there's 10 spots in the coin-flips. In this format, you need a superteam to have a chance, which means even more incentive to tank for a golden-years strategy. It basically turns baseball into the NBA with a one-year delay on winning a title once you get your superteam together.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    Oh god that's awful. All it takes is one dominant team and suddenly the championship is decided two months in advance and 20 or so teams have nothing to play for. The author thinks it discourages tanking, but it really makes it even more desirable. You need to be one of the top handful of teams to have a chance at a title. As it is right now, the 15th best team might as well play it out and take their shot, because there's 10 spots in the coin-flips. In this format, you need a superteam to have a chance, which means even more incentive to tank for a golden-years strategy. It basically turns baseball into the NBA with a one-year delay on winning a title once you get your superteam together.
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    Probably a little high, but I guess I can see it.
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    I vaguely remember this. It wasn't Dusty Baker, was it?
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    Not traded at all. Plays himself back to Iowa by June, dealt for minimal return in the offseason.
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    A best shape of his life and rededicated story already? Winter is flying by.
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Wrist surgery, at least four months
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    This thread is fun: http://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?110341-Todd-Frazier-traded-to-Chicago-White-Sox/
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    Mostly MLB, but his power was noticeably down overall. He hit 14 HRs across 393 PAs, or roughly 21 per 600 PAs last year. That's down from 29 per 600 the year before.
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    It isn't an afterthought at all. You're right that his line was salvaged by the babip. However, there is also a lot of room for optimism in the adjustments he made last year. As long as there's progression, there is reason to believe he could still break through to the player we hope he could be. Also, if you trade him, what is your plan for backup IF? I don't feel like backup infielders are *that* hard to find that we'd need to have a plan in place before trading Baez. There's optimism because young and upside, but the adjustments he made last year sucked. All he did was trade almost all his power for a little contact.
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    I feel like the idea that Baez might be awful is just an afterthought, which is weird. He was awful in 2014, and he would have been awful in 2015 if not for a .412 BABIP. Below-replacement awful.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    I wouldn't reject Baez for Strasburg plus comp pick out of hand. How much worse is a comp pick than Baez at this point? We still have strong reason to suspect Baez just cannot hit MLB pitching. We're all just assuming he gets 500 PAs Zobristing next year if he's not the CF starter, but he could easily play himself out of that job in less than half that.
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    An offer for Sale that has any chance of being accepted starts with Russell or Schwarber.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    That seems awfully technical to expect from someone who worked at Best Buy.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    We were always a little light in the 90s and early 2000s. MacPhail really didn't want to annoy the other owners by giving out any huge contracts. We were really good at making reasonable bids that didn't win free agents. I wanted Mike Hampton so bad.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    i mean even if it was an active decision to tank and the financial restrictions were completely made up, if the outcome was a 99 win true talent team where over half the key contributors are 26 and under, i ain't even mad (anymore). http://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/716/449/449716.gif I'm mostly there, but at best I'm giving all that credit to the front office and continuing to disapprove of Ricketts' creepy conservative rich whiteness.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    I'm very suspicious of the whole "we were spending all the money we could in the past, then we decided we wanted to win go for it so we just asked the business side if they could find some extra money for us" and suddenly payroll goes up $40m.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    I guess maybe you could like the Giants a lot, but Arizona still sucks.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    *pats them on the head* that's a cute little team you have there. Good effort.
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    I don't even know how to wrap my head around a 90-win projection. Like you can come in -10 against your projection like last year's Nats and still probably be in the Wild Card game.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    When Christian Villanueva tears up winter league after being a wet fart for two years in AAA, my thought isn't "Wow, Christian Villanueva just became valuable!" It's "wow, that winter league must be really easy to hit in."
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