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  1. TheLeviathan
    Neither of us know how those negotiations go. For some of these guys the larger total dollar guarantee may be more appealing. Adam Dunn had already been established and made a bunch of money, the situations are very different.
  2. TheLeviathan
    If they avoided this because he's going to be a sub-par player - great! Hopefully they're right. But at this point, we have every reason to believe the reason was because his price went too high. What we do know for sure, that is the most disappointing part for many I think, is that he was one of only a few options this young available in FA.
  3. TheLeviathan
    This assumes the payroll would be used otherwise. It also assumes Abreu is a below average player. How good he will be remains to be seen, but if fear of disappointing results is going to drive your contract signings - you might as well not even bother. Great players and talented players disappoint every year for any number of reasons. Plus, Ryan is paid to make sure he utilizes his resources effectively. So far, he isn't earning his own paycheck either.
  4. TheLeviathan
    I don't believe we will ever see a contract of 6 years given to a pitcher by Ryan. I hope he proves me wrong, but deals like this strike me as the only kinds of larger commitments we'll see.
  5. TheLeviathan
    I guess I'm not concerned about the ordering of significant signings. I'm more concerned that we won't have any at all.
  6. TheLeviathan
    This. I have no problem with demonizing McDonalds in this or talking about personal responsibility. What bothers me, and most people I think, is how often this concept is manipulated. i get the anti-corporatism to a degree, but not to the point of making hurt feelings into dollar signs.
  7. TheLeviathan
    They absolutely are. It's part of why they need to go.
  8. TheLeviathan
    If he's a good hitter, we have plenty of positions he could supplant.
  9. TheLeviathan
    This discussion isn't about results as nick hints at. This is about what the rational thing to expect was. Ryan's comments are about what he expected before the season. Guys like Marcum, Jackson, and McCarthy didn't have good years - but they all offered vastly superior upside than what we signed. We saw about the best we could expect from our signings....so what exactly did Ryan expect beforehand that he thought they'd make a dramatic difference?
  10. TheLeviathan
    There is no amount of context that turns "we thought Pelfrey and Coreia was a good plan" into a defensible idea. That idea, and the fact that Terry Ryan actually believed it, is exactly the problem.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Why is it wrong to point out that a "plan" involving Correia and a still-recovering Pelfrey to rebound your rotation is a bad one? It was plainly obvious that it was a poor plan (Or at least a highly unlikely to succeed plan) to most everyone other than the front office well before the results came in. Fangraphs wrote about it, many bloggers here wrote about it. This supposed shock at it's failure and the attempts to justify it isn't an attack on hindsight. There was plenty of foresight on this issue.
  12. TheLeviathan
    You play someone that MAY be a part of the future. Look at Brandon Moss as an example of a team investing at-bats in at least the possibility of future contributions. Willingham offers ZERO future productivity. At least give someone with a 1 or 5 or 20 percent chance a shot. And, for the record, I was for dealing him last year. I maintain it was foolish to argue his value would be higher this year. His value (whatever it may have been) was highest last July. And he should've been dealt then.
  13. TheLeviathan
    Injury prone players at 34 are a bad thing to plan on OPSing anything. And no field/some slug corner players are some of the easiest to find if you need to.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Brandon, you keep insisting that you are posting an unbiased explanation of these rules, but these posts are anything but unbiased. If you truly intend just be explaining them, a better attempt at the pros and cons might help. These posts are littered with justifications for why these rules are sensible, but no attempt to present a counterpoint. You are welcome to be biased as well, but your implication of being unbiased in the post above doesn't mesh with the content of your two rules posts.
  15. TheLeviathan
    I would agree defense is an emphasis of the team. And a good one IMO. Just think how much better a good defense would make good pitching rather than average? Even a good defense will make mistakes and fail the pitchers when they are constantly on the hook for making the play. (Rather than the pitcher getting an average or above average number of outs by themselves)
  16. TheLeviathan
    Watching Carlos Beltran be a vital cog for the Cardinals should be a reminder about just how impactful FA can be for a team that uses it well.
  17. TheLeviathan
    It's better than nothing. And I think there was more potential out there than that for both of them last year that we passed on. This team forms unhealthy attachments very quickly with some types of guys.
  18. TheLeviathan
    I think you are following the debate too closely in your interpretation Glunn. I don't mean a "good" law in terms of being cheap or financially sound. I want a good law that is well tailored to solve the problem without rampant unintended consequences that far outweigh any immediate good it creates. sometimes good solutions are expensive, but at least they are good solutions. Too often the moral chest thumping your first paragraph uses overrides the entire discussion.
  19. TheLeviathan
    The biggest reason to trade these guys is our farm still needs more pitching and mediocre power hitters that are bad defensively are one of the easiest commodities to acquire.
  20. TheLeviathan
    It's the next to nothing part that makes this different. We are suggesting landing a very solid young starter. Far from nothing.
  21. TheLeviathan
    I appreciated his passion and his relentlessness during games. But as awesome as that Torri could be on the field, he was even more spectacularly despicable off it. The guy was a loudmouth faux-leader. I'd like an actual leader - one with a sense of accountability and less hypocrisy. So pass for me on this one.
  22. TheLeviathan
    Why would anyone, much less Cincy, want Plouffe? Even as a throw-in?
  23. TheLeviathan
    Fine by me, as long as we are actually worried about that. Too often the moral sledgehammer gets out and the nuance needed to guarantee is lost in the scuffle for high ground. I want good moral policy. Not just more policy. Too much of this thread ignores the "good" in the name of the moral. It's rampant in here much like in society.
  24. TheLeviathan
    there are an abundance of laws that relate to this as well. It was the relaxing of federal regulations during a booming economy that got the ball rolling. That doesn't excuse the private banks, just gives proper due to poorly thought out policy as well.
  25. TheLeviathan
    He traded for Wood too. I recognize the difference, but it doesn't matter if the issue is one of principle and not availability of resources.
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