I’m sure I’m guilty of it. I try to be honest about free agents that I think he would go after, but I’m sure some of my personal bias gets in the way a bit.
Thanks for correcting me on the playoffs. I’ll plead ignorance to assuming every regular season leads to a playoff now that the Ivy League has a postseason tournament.
And I agree with you, playoffs can cheapen a regular season.
The thing with promotion/relegation that gets me is basing competitive grouping and/or playoff odds on the previous season’s standings. That doesn’t compute to me.
I don’t know if this is a decent analogy or not. But it’d be like taking last season’s group of five or six or whatever college playoff entry and bumping them into a power conference while knocking out a team from the conference in to the MAC or CUSA or wherever that promoted team came from. That’s silly to me.
Small sample size, but I liked Stewart and Duren starting together. But now that you mention Holland & Duren, I can see pairing Harris & Stewart together. Maybe those duos work well enough together to be viable against most other teams.
So what is this super league supposed to look like? Would the Purdues and Rutgers be invited to it? The Globetrotters didn’t win all of those games without the Washington Generals. I can’t see a league with only “blue bloods” knocking the snot out of each other every week.
Carpenter has a .606 OPS in 197 MLB PAs vs LHP over 4 seasons. Hardly seems conclusive enough to not use him lower in a starting lineup vs LHP. On the other hand, the versatility of the Tigers have allowed Hinch to deploy Carpenter as a PH vs RHP at different spots if/when needed.