Post#7 » by TSE » Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:50 pm
It's a fair deal for the player, but only if you are going to make a serious WS run, otherwise it's wasted money that could have been spent as a investment in the future. The move on paper is terrible for us as a business decision and as a sports decision as it once again fails to give us an investment that can extrapolate into the future. We keep backing ourselves into a corner with a poor risk diversification level and that's how you can have many years in a row with over a hundred million dollars going to waste. It's a recipe for the biggest disaster possible because anybody can lose cheaply, and we are giving ourselves high odds to once again fail very expensively, and that's bad baseball. Sure we could get lucky and win the WS over better teams, but the odds aren't high enough to justify the cost in our particular situation.
Bottom line, is this move is stupid unless we do other moves prior to the start of the year to shore up our biggest weaknesses on the roster. That means we must acquire an upgrade to our hitting lineup at either 3B or SS or 2B. If we don't re-organize then we will be certain to have an inefficient team for the money.
