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  1. Tiger337
    I am very encouraged by their progress as an organization. Hopefully, it works out long term and they can keep getting better without top picks every year. Until they start having consistent success on the field though, we can't start comparing them to other teams who have had success already.
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    The Cardinals do well with an average payroll. These are all exceptional examples, but we are now up to three teams that have had success without huge payrolls and without going through the typical cycle of not even trying for five years in hopes of getting good again. There are other ways of doing things.
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    Teams can't all be good at the same time. There will be bad years here and there, but they should try to remain competitive. Teams can remain competitive by having systems which consistently produce talent. They can also keep some of their veterans who are still pretty good, but aren't so marketable. Trading a player like JD Martinez for crap prospects is only done to save money. When teams desperately trade EVERYBODY, I consider that tanking. Maybe a budget floor would help.
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    If they can't compete with the Rays, that is their own fault. The Rays are a great example of a team getting better without being wealthy and without tanking.
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    Right, everything they tried to do was unsuccessful. Thank God for Trump's incompetence and lack of seriousness. I actually think he got what he wanted out of it - lots of attention, not being viewed as a loser by his followers, a chance to make a profit from his loss and a chance for revenge.
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    Too much emphasis on playoffs ruins sports. I vote for relegation. Or maybe financially reward teams for number of wins. I still like having a lottery based on principle, so as not to reward teams for losing. At the very least, I won't have to see fans rooting for their teams to lose!
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    Well. if the Tigers finish with the 8th worst record and then win the loittery, that will help! 🙂
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    Those five years which they were bad were a failure. The reason for the failure might have occurred prior to that, but when a sports team sucks for five years that is a failure.
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    Five years is a long time and those five years are just as valid as the next five years. If your team sucks for five years you have failed as an organization.
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    I think teams should strive to be competitive every year. Every year there are surprise teams that are supposed to be mediocre and things break right for them and they do better than expected.
  11. Tiger337
    Is there any wonder why he declined so much in his "30s"?
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    I don't think a team should fail to put a competitive team on the field for five years, collect draft picks and do little else to improve the team. It's OK for a team to have a down year or two, but being crappy for five years is a failure. I think that happens because owners want to save money during down years and they try to convince everyone it's a good thing.
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    I don't always agree with the saber community. I pride myself in being half saber and half old man who hates the modern game.
  14. Tiger337
    Jeter belongs near the end of the list. Ripken should have been ahead of him. I think the saber community is more right about Jeter than the media.
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    Somebody gets unlucky and somebody else gets lucky in a lottery. Nobody gets screwed because no team deserves the number one pick. I don't like seeing a team get rewarded for finishing last. An eight team lottery seems fair to me.
  16. Tiger337
    Expanding post-season is the worst idea ever...Well, other than putting a runner at second base in extra innings. It cheapens the regular season and makes the post-season even less meaningful than it already is. I hate that they are trying to mold baseball into a generic sports no different than any other.
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    I am in favor of a draft lottery with every non-playoff teams or eight teams is OK too. A three team lottery is silly. I don't think there is any need for a lottery after the first round as it beomes a crap shoot after that anway.
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    Looking at the numbers again, it is amazing how consistently bad Jeter was defensivly even early in his career. That doesn't mean he was a bad fielder. It just means that he was worse than the best fielders in the game. Perhaps, he played out of position his entire career.
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    The funny thing is I liked Jeter early in his career. He reminded me of Alan Trammell. Then they started building him up to be a baseball god and it turned me off. Then he began to buy into the hype, stayed at shortstop for way too long and became one of the worst defensive shortstops ever.
  20. Tiger337
    He was #28.
  21. Tiger337
    A good article by one of my favorite writers (no paywall) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/02/opinion/tara-westover-educated-student-debt.html
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    This is a good article on evaluation of Negro League players. One of the main points is that both the White and Negro Leagues were very watered down prior to integration. If Blacks had been allowed to play in the majors, you would be replacing the bottom third of players with substantially better players. So, you can't trust the white major league numbers either. The conditions would have very diferent. The author makes a point about head to head match-ups between Black and White teams as well. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33194902/top-100-mlb-players-all-oscar-charleston-best-baseball-player-all-why-important-try-find-out
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    I probably wouldn't rank Berra that high, but I think catchers tend to be underrated. it's really hard to rank them since so much of what they do can not be measured. I don't usually like to give players a lot of points for post-season play but he was an important piece of ten world champions and he did well in post-season. So, he gets a little boost for that. More importantly, he was a good hitter for a catcher and had a good reputation as a defender. I think he's still too high, but his ranking is less egregious than Jeter.
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    Numbers 26-50. Jeter #28. The real overrated shortstop. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33145627/top-100-mlb-players-all-nos-50-26
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    In ranking the greatest players of all time, I look at value, both long-term and short-term. Ripken had both. According to WAR, he was the best player in the league three times. He wasn't the best hitter in the league those years, but shortstops almost never are unless you're Wagner or Rodriguez. He was a very good hitter those years and could also field. I am not seeing where he is over rated, at least not on the list that was posted. Ripken is not Wagner or Rodriguez. He is Jeter with a glove. He is Trammell with durability.
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