Offseason baseball Thread

Outfielders are the easiest thing to find especially if you care less about power. In all three world championships, they had at least one starter who wasn't there at the beginning of the year. A heavy dose of scrap-heap guys too (Burrell, Andres Torres, Blanco, Juan Perez).

 

A lot of it is they've gone all-in on pitching, with results like Cain, Lincecum and Bumgarner, and have filled in holes at the trade deadline. They're shifting more to growing more of their own and analytics.

 

Someone else who will be resigning soon:

In an interview, Minor League Baseball president Pat O’Conner diminishes the work of his players

 

And even the bare bones ideas I proposed sailed right over the pile jumper's head. No surprise there.

Try again, JC. If you actually read the posts and try really hard, even you can get it. I'm sorry if that sounds condescending, but that you can't even understand that you can base a salary floor on revenues without having a cap really makes me wonder about your mental capacity.

Of course, I don't recommend doing it that way. The better solution is a floor and a cap. It's also the realistic one, but not because of the players and it's not because you can't have a floor without a cap. It's because you have fallen for the bullshit the owners have been feeding you for years. The owners have conned people in believing you have to have both because they don't want either. They don't want a level playing field. The high-revenue teams want to be able to buy a championship and the low-revenue franchises want to be able to bottom out and boost their profits.

 

@JC feel free to use this at your leisure:

Instant Rod Allen Second Deck

 

The pile jumper doesn't need your help. He has proven capable of creating useless, repetitive, lazy posts all by himself.

 

Silly me, thinking all of these new posts meant something had happened.

 

Yonder Alonso, two years, $16 mil from the Indians.

 

That seems like they are paying for a career year and still getting a significant downgrade from Santana.

 

Bob Nutting tells Trib he has 'no interest' in selling the Pirates

Speaking of the impact of finances on baseball, Bob Nutting broke the hearts of Pirates fans everywhere by saying he has no interest in selling the team. In fact, he has said he wants to follow the Rooney family example and pass the team down to his daughters. Maybe one of them can play the role of Dan Rooney and redeem her father's failed ownership.

 

Assuming he'll be in a platoon at first given his splits.

The Indians have been wizards at making those work the last few years.

 

Career half year.