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The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing 27 Points 2007-09-17 00:22:00 Is David DeJesus' career in jeopardy? Probably not, but according to Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star, there's considerable cause for concern:Even David DeJesus isn’t sure how to evaluate his season.From one perspective, his .268 average represents a 27-point drop from last season and is the result of some atypically extended slumps.The flip side is DeJesus is just two runs shy of becoming the first Royal since Carlos Beltran in 2003 to score 100 runs, leads the club in RBIs despite spending most of the season as the leadoff hitter and sports an on-base percentage that approximates his career mark.Well, the runs and RBI are largely lineup-dependent, so they don't tell us a whole lot about Dejesus' own performance. Let's concentrate on the average and OBP. It's true that his lifetime average is .285, but fluctuations in batting average from year to year are often largely dependent on luck. Let's check out DeJesus' BABIPs (Batting Average[s] on Balls in Play) for the first fo Read more:Disappearing
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The Eternally-Maligned K 2007-09-16 21:56:00 Strikeouts really don't deserve the abuse they take from the mainstream baseball media. It's no coincidence that many of the best players in baseball are also prone to the K, but this relationship too often goes unnoticed in favor of scapegoating like this:Manager Ozzie Guillen says he'd like to see more emphasis on on-base percentage among White Sox hitters next season, and one place to start is cutting down on strikeouts. Sox hitters fanned 12 times Saturday night against the Angels and have struck out 1,045 times in 148 games, or about seven times per game, fourth worst in the American League. That's seven unproductive at-bats on which nothing happens because the ball isn't put in play.Is that really the place to start? Having a high strikeout total doesn't preclude a team from also enjoying a high OBP; on the contrary, teams which feature selective hitters who reach base with great frequency often strike out a lot, too, simply because they're willing to go deep in counts. Fo
Only on Fox 2007-09-15 15:31:00 During the Yankees-Red Sox game Josh Lewin threw it downstairs to the least charismatic man in show business, Ken Rosenthal. Ken? (This is all verbatim through the magic of DVR...no, it's not mine.)The last two nights Jason Giambi has looked rather shaky at first base, but before that he had played a little bit better. He's recovered from the tear of the plantar fascia in his left foot, and he says with the orthotics now, that he's wearing in his two...feet - in his shoes - that he feels a lot better physically. The bottom line is the Yankees need Giambi to play an adequate first base, because their best defensive outfield alignment is Johnny Damon in left, Melky Cabrera in center, and Bobby Abreu in right, with Hideki Matsui as the DH. If they play the Angels in the playoffs, Giambi at first could be problematic because the Angels put that running game into effect, and he has difficulty throwing to second base.Josh: That's good stuff.Did you all get that? The Angels will exploit a
Lisa Kennelly Loves the Wang 2007-09-15 01:11:00 Chien-Ming Wang might be on the verge of stealing the Cy Young Award from a number of better-qualified candidates. So, Lisa Kennelly of the Neward Star-Ledger asks, why doesn't anybody love him? What Wang is doing is making a quiet case as one of the majors' best, compiling a big-league best 37-12 record the past two seasons. He is 5-0 in his past six starts and has not lost since Aug. 8 in Toronto. He has a 3.69 ERA, and has allowed only eight home runs. And yet Wang's achievements are often overshadowed by pitchers such as Beckett, 5-1 with a 2.90 ERA and 50 strikeouts in 49 2/3 innings over his past seven starts, or the Indians' C.C. Sabathia, also a Cy Young contender at 17-7 going into last night's start. "I have no idea (why)," Posada said. "He is underappreciated. I think he's been very good all year."No idea, huh? Could it be that he's simply not as good as Beckett and Sabathia? Or Johan Santana? Or Dan Haren, Erik Bedard, Fausto Carmona, John Lackey, Kelvim Escobar,
Presenting the New "Pitcher of the Year" Awards 2007-09-12 19:44:00 These are the awards that Philadelphia Daily News columnist Bill Conlin would like to see. Bill has appeared here multiple times, usually for cockamamie ideas just like this one. I know what you're all thinking: we already have the Cy Young award for pitchers. Well, Bill wants an award that includes relievers too! Wait, what are you thinking now? You say we already have the Rolaids Relief Man award? Bill scoffs at that award, so much so that he wants to make an entirely new category just because the one we have isn't good enough.When I'm King of the World...A Pitcher
of the Year Award will be added to the Cy Young Award in each league. The Cy has long been the property of starting pitchers. When a relief pitcher is honored by the BBWAA, it is usually with MVP - Jim Konstanty in 1950 and Willie Hernandez in 1984 were two. But as starters play an increasingly diminished role, the closers and setup men need something a little more substantial than an award backed by an antacid. Maybe o Read more:Awards
Please, Please, Don't Give This Man a Vote 2007-09-11 23:38:00 Bernie Lincicome has penned/typed an extraordinarily bad defense of Troy Tulowitzki's candidacy for the NL Rookie of the Year Award. In addition to being a truly disastrous piece of prose, it's also completely illogical, not to mention mildly offensive. The best way I can illustrate this is simply to allow you to read it, so, without further ado...Oh, come on. Who's having a better rookie year than Troy Tulowitzki?Ryan Braun. The name that keeps coming up is Ryan Braun of Milwaukee, but anything baseball that happens in Milwaukee must be taken with the same faith as anything baseball that happens in Denver, so who knows?Congratulations are in order for anticipating my response. It's almost like you know that Braun is better, but you're just going to forge ahead anyway. You're a Denver columnist, after all! It's not your job to promote people from Milwaukee! Also, I have no idea what the latter part of that sentence means.It is not that Braun is necessarily better than Tulowitzki Read more:Please
How Not to Handle a Steroid Press Conference, Part Two 2007-09-11 20:31:00 A while ago we documented the exploits of San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman as he addressed the media regarding his steroid suspension. There was a lot of double talk, wherein Merriman tried to earn credibility by admitting his guilt before turning around and decrying the drug manufacturer, telling us all that he was not a cheater, and-most hilariously-repeating the line, "It could happen to anyone."Now we have Rick Ankiel, a week ago the most inspirational story in baseball this year, today a prime suspect in the ongoing steroid investigation. Ankiel allegedly received HGH from a Florida-based pharmacy under the scope of a steroid investigation. You would think that being named in such a report would be bad enough for a player's PR. But if we've learned anything from this whole steroid mess, it's that the players don't sully their reputations by doing steroids nearly as much as they do while addressing the media after they get caught. Below are some of Ankiel's and Ca Read more:Handle
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A Questionable Statement, Indeed 2007-09-11 12:56:00 Tigers manager Jim Leyland might think his opinions are above reproach, but BTL begs to differ:The Mariners showcased a lot of offense Sunday, but what left the biggest impression on both teams was the defense of shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt, who had as impressive a day as you're ever likely to see. Betancourt made three highlight-reel plays, saving runs and earning high praise from teammates and Detroit manager Jim Leyland. "He's unbelievable," Leyland said. "He's the best defensive shortstop in the league, without question. He's tremendous.""Without question?" Not exactly. OK, so Leyland is probably just trying to be a good sport by demonstrating his appreciation for an opposing player who helped defeat his team, but making a definitive statement like this indirectly slights other shortstops around the league--at least a few of whom are clearly superior to Betancourt in the field. Let's check the stats.Betancourt comes in tied for 3rd (with Jason Bartlett) among AL qualifiers a
Randy Moss Wants to Be a Millionaire 2007-09-11 10:30:00 When asked if he thought he made a statement in Sunday's shellacking of the J-E-T-S, Randy
Moss said:"I'll leave that up to you guys. That's what the talk shows and the game shows are for, to tell the people the nonsense you all believe in."The game shows, Randy? Boy, I can't wait to see Meredith Viera breakdown your performance on today's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
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Who is the "Truest" Yankee of Them All? 2007-09-09 23:28:00 Mike Lupica of the NY Daily News feels that Joba Chamberlain's career path should mimic that of the greatest Yankee
of the last decade. But Chamberlain's future isn't the only thing he's wrong about. In addition, the man doesn't even realize who the best Yankee of the last decade is:Joba Chamberlain is going to be a big Yankee starter, I get that. Going to be such a tremendous Yankee starter that they can't pitch him two days in a row while he's a reliever. I get that. And good for Brian Cashman to take the long view on a guy pitching short relief. What I don't get: Why can't Joba Chamberlain be groomed to be the Mo Rivera of the future?He could be. And from the looks of it, he'd have considerable success in the closer role. But great closers aren't as valuable as great, or even very good, starters. The most innings Mariano Rivera has ever thrown in a year is 107 2/3, as a setup man in 1996. Since becoming a closer, his highest IP total is 80 2/3, in 2001. Since successf
The Context of Clutch-ness 2007-09-07 11:58:00 Buster Olney left out some critical information when he wrote about how valuable Alex Rodriguez has been for the Yankees in 2007: Twenty of Alex Rodriguez’s 48 homers have either put the Yankees ahead or tied the game. Last year, just 13 of his homers put the Yankees ahead or tied the game. Wow, sure sounds like A-Rod has been a lot more clutch this season than he was in 2006. Or has he? See, what Buster didn’t mention is the fact that A-Rod only hit 35 all of last year; while he has hit more “clutch” homers this year, he has also hit quite a few more homers, period. The percentage of his home runs which resulted in a tie or a Yankee lead has risen from 37.1% to 41.7%. Statistically significant? I think not. Incidentally, it would be interesting to know the average percentage of game-tying or lead-changing homers in MLB. If you, dear reader, know, or care to find out, please pass that information along. It could be that A-Rod’s accumulated “important” homers do Read more:Context
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When Winning When it Counts, Doesn't Count 2007-09-05 11:51:00 BTL veteran Murray Chass has a baffling opinion on which New York team deserves to make the playoffs:This team, Team A, deserves to make the playoffs. It loses all four games of a four-game series to the team closest to it in its division, then when it could be on the brink of collapse, improbably sweeps three games in its next series, playing its thorniest rival in that team’s home park, where only bad things seem to happen.This team, Team B, doesn’t deserve to make the playoffs. It sweeps three games from its fiercest rival, the team it needs to catch to win the division title, then loses two of three to the team with the worst record in the major leagues, scoring only three runs in the two losses against the worst pitching staff in the majors.This makes very little sense. Why does the team that displays an inability to defeat the team it needs to defeat in order to advance, deserve to advance? OK, so they managed to win the next series, but still, they were swept in a 4-game ser Read more:Winning
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Joe Maddon: Tactical Genius 2007-09-03 01:42:00 I'm well aware, dear readers, that some of you may be quick to belittle the impact a manager has on his team's performance. I've been guilty of harboring these doubts myself. But my crisis of faith came to an end once I read about Devil Rays manager Joe Maddon's brilliant strategic maneuvering during Saturday's Yanks-Rays game:Rays manager Joe Maddon made it clear that he didn't believe there was anything illegal about Alex Rodriguez's bat, but he still requested it be confiscated Saturday afternoon an inning after Yankees manager Joe Torre did the same to Rays 3B Akinori Iwamura.Confiscation without suspicion? A highly unorthodox move. Only a true master of the "game within the game" could attain such heights of...gamesmanship.Rodriguez's bat didn't have a flat barrel end like Iwamura's (Torre reasoned he had never seen that before), but the majors' home run leader had just hit his 45th of the season in the first. "It was just retaliation," Maddon said after the Rays' 9-6 Read more:Tactical
Chicks Don't Dig the Strikeout... 2007-09-30 00:01:00 ...And neither does Dallas News columnist Evan Grant:Forget the club record. The Rangers are on the way to becoming one of the most frequently whiffed teams in AL history. With their second strikeout this weekend, the Rangers will have the third highest strikeout total in league history, behind Tampa Bay (1,291 this season and still going) and Detroit (1,268 in 1996). Both were 90-loss teams. The moral: fail to make contact, and losses will mount.No. That is not the moral. There is no moral, except for the fact that the 2007 Rangers strike out a lot. As we told you already, high strikeout totals do not a bad offensive team make. The 2004 Red Sox led the AL in strikeouts, and runs scored. The difference between them and the current Rangers team is the fact that the '04 Sox also led the league in OBP, while the Rangers are about to finish 11th in that category. So it's not really the failure to make contact frequently which causes the losses to mount; it's the failure to reach base at Read more:Chicks
I Say Matsui, You Say Matsuzaka 2007-09-28 23:30:00 Play-by-play man Gary Thorne, on tonight's Orioles MASN broadcast:In tonight's 5-2 win over Minnesota, Hideki Matsui
provided Boston with 8 innings of 2-run, 8-strikeout ball.Hey, they're both Japanese, right? Close enough. Read more:Matsuzaka
Clueless Joel 2007-10-11 20:30:00 The steady stream of Joe Torre-related articles has shown no sign of abating since the Yankees' early playoff exit, and probably won't until his job status is clarified once and for all. These articles generally stump for Torre's return based solely on past success, or demand Torre's ouster on the basis that it's simply "time for a change." Only a precious few actually take the time and effort to examine Torre's on-the-job performance in an effort to determine his worthiness. The following, written by Joel Sherman of the NY Post just before the Yankees' defeat, is not one of them.Lou Piniella, the man George Steinbrenner wanted last year at this time rather than Joe Torre, just guided his team out of the playoffs, losing three straight games to a Diamondback team that scored fewer runs than it allowed this year.True, but if you think that proves that the Yankees are better off with Torre than Piniella, or anyone else, you're mistaken; it merely serves to illustrate how little i Read more:Clueless
More "Flop"-Related Fallout 2007-10-11 10:46:00 In the wake of the Yankees' 1st-round loss to the Indians, countless articles have been written about Alex Rodriguez's alleged failure to produce (not to mention the innumerable Torre-related fare; I'll get to that later). So instead of posting about every single one of them which wouldn't be fun for your or me, I'll just let Newsday's Johnette Howard take the full brunt of my wrath:After this Division Series, when does every last holdout in the sport - the scouts who still coo about Rodriguez's picturesque swing, the "Yeah, but ... " seamheads who point to his fat numbers, the historians who are busy plotting he'll likely break Barry Bonds' all-time home run record in 2013 - just give up and agree this is what Rodriguez is: a guy who gets you to the postseason but won't ever win it for you.Never, Johnette. Never. Because not only is he the owner of a picturesque swing and an extraordinary statistical record, he also already has found success in the playoffs. He won't "win i Read more:Fallout
First-Round Flops...and A-Rod 2007-10-10 23:29:00 CNNSI is running a list of the top ten Division Series flops. A-Rod, of course, is prominently featured, despite the fact that there wasn't exactly a whole lot of "flopping" taking place on A-Rod's part. Here's his competition, with AVG/OBP/SLG listed for the hitters, and W-L record, ERA, and WHIP listed for the two pitchers:Derek Jeter: .176/.176/.176Vladimir Guerrero: .200/.333/.200Garret Anderson: .222/.300/.333Chase Utley: .182/.308/.182Aaron Rowand: .083/.083/.333Alfonso Soriano: .143/.200/.143Aramis Ramirez: .000/.077/.000Chien-Ming Wang: 0-2, 19.06, 2.82Ted Lilly: 0-1, 16.20, 3.30And then there's A-Rod:Alex Rodriguez: .267/.353/.467Which one of these things is not like the others? A-Rod's line wasn't exactly typical A-Rod, but it was still that of an above-average major league hitter. Everyone else on the list was flat-out awful. He wasn't even nearly the worst hitter on his own team; in fact, he was probably the 4th-best, after Cano, Damon, and Abreu. And he played bette Read more:First
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Indians vs. Yankees: Not David vs. Goliath 2007-10-09 02:31:00 Paul Byrd is perpetuating a myth, and he must be stopped."They have Mariano Rivera, throwing 94 [mph] and carving up the strike zone, and we throw our blue-collar closer, Joe Borowski. He doesn't have the best fastball or the best ERA, but that's how we do it. That's how we've been winning all year, playing as a team and working together." --Indians
starter Paul ByrdYou also throw your unhittable lefty-righty tandem of middle relievers named Rafael: Perez, and Betancourt. Both of whom had better years than Rivera, and both of whom do plenty of strike-zone carving and 94-mph-fastball throwing. Also, "Blue Collar" Borowski made $4.25 million this year. So give me a break; the world's smallest violin is already engaged elsewhere (Chicago, for example). The Indians weren't plucky underdogs confronting a big, bad, quasi-invincible Yankee machine; they might not have had the name recognition of their New York opponents, but they did have a collection of talent which won more games than Read more:Yankees
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Somewhere, Kevin Kernan is Crying 2007-10-08 15:02:00 Ladies and gentlemen, the time which many of us have been awaiting, consciously or subconsciously, has arrived. Derek Jeter's career postseason stats, as of last night's 0-4 (with a strikeout and 2 GIDP) performance, have fallen below the level of his career regular season stats, at least for today. Time to present the evidence:Career: .318/.388/.462Posteason: .308/.377/.469That's a career .850 regular season OPS, and a career .846 postseason OPS. Mr. Autumn-atic, indeed. Read more:Somewhere
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I Dare You to Read This 2007-10-08 01:59:00 If your mind is still completely intact after finishing it, you're a better person than I. After having read the first 6 paragraphs (which are composed of 7 sentences and 4 sentence fragments, and I'm being generous) I am no longer the man I once was. Peruse it at your own risk.
The (Tall) Tale of Two MVP Candidates 2007-10-08 01:12:00 Sam Donnellon of the Philadelphia Daily News believes that Jimmy Rollins of the Phillies should be the MVP of the National League. That, in itself, is not worthy of drawing special notice from BTL's ever-roaming eye. However, Donnellon's rationale, if one can call it that, is entirely deserving of our ocular attention.HE WON the argument in the worst way possible, Jimmy Rollins did. He is the Most Valuable Player of the National League because of what he means to his team, because that contribution was more crucial to his team getting to Game 1 of the National League Division Series than was the contribution of the other candidate across the field, the one who hit the insurance home run in Colorado's 4-2 win.So you're saying that Rollins was more valuable to the Phillies than Holliday was to the Rockies. This might be a valid reason to designate Rollins as MVP-- if it were true. But it probably isn't. Holliday finished 2007 with a WARP-3 (Wins Over Replacement Player, adjusted for Read more:Candidates
ESPN and Rocket 2007-10-07 20:17:00 ESPN.com's caption:"The cynics said the Yankees were paying Roger Clemens $1 million a start. By that math, postseason gigs are free. Good thing. Needing his best, New York didn't even get three innings."Needing his best for what? A win?The score is currently 8-3 Yankees. Hmmm...
When Achieving the Appropriate Amount Just Won't Do 2007-10-04 01:33:00 Nick Canepa of the San Diego Union-Tribune has a reassuring message for grieving Padres fans: they didn't really deserve to be in that playoff game anyway.The fascinating 2007 Padres were not better than the Rockies. They were not better than the Diamondbacks. They were a baseball team built with guts, trades and clubhouse glue, wrapped tight in waiver wire. They overachieved. Still, they came this close to getting it done.Actually, they didn't overachieve. Their Pythagorean W-L record was 89-74, and their actual W-L record was 89-74. So, they pretty much achieved what they should have achieved, as far as translating runs scored and runs allowed into wins goes. In fact, BP's PECOTA projection system had them at 90-72 back in January. So they didn't exactly shock anyone. Now the Diamondbacks, on the other hand-- that's a team that overachieved.But, along the long way, Towers, general managing like a maniac on the fly, just kept bringing people in, finding a way. Look:Remember now, Read more:Amount
You've Read This Article Many, Many Times Before 2007-10-04 01:08:00 It's October. The Yankees are in the playoffs. Derek Jeter is still manning the shortstop position for New York's AL representative. Uh-oh.Kevin Kernan of the NY Post has penned an article which might very well be entirely copied and pasted from numerous Jeter articles of Octobers past. Waves of deja vu swept over me as I finished reading each sentence. I mean, presumably, good articles about baseball should have something new to say, right? Jeter is 33 years old. He has been in the postseason every year of his career. There's nothing novel about this situation. Did I mention that the title of the article is "Mr. Autumn-atic?"I don't have the heart to go through this thing line by line and express my disgust after each excerpt. So I'm just going to paste some of the highlights. Tell me if you've seen these lines before:The boxscore doesn't tell him he has had a good game. The final score is the judge. Win and it's a good day.Even though Jeter wears No. 2 on his back, he will al Read more:Article
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The "Spoiler" Mentality 2007-10-02 00:59:00 As the end of every regular season nears, each non-contending team seems to regain its sense of purpose. Many of them have already been mathematically eliminated, but that nagging issue doesn't seem to cast a damper on their renewed enthusiasm. This enlivened commitment to victory has nothing to do with an improvement in their own playoff fortunes; in fact, it has everything to do with the opportunity to hurt the chances of others. I've always found this motivation somewhat baffling.It's not just the fact that taking pleasure in the failures of others isn't something which people generally boast about, or even admit. I mean, we've all felt that way at one point or another, so I won't pretend that the "spoiler" teams are any more morally bankrupt than the average person. "Misery loves company" is an old saying, after all. But how many of us go to work each day with the intention to make others miserable?I suppose that much much of the "spoiler" phenomenon stems from the fact that Read more:Spoiler
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Simply Maddening 2007-10-17 19:23:00 Bill Madden of the NY Daily News can't seem to keep his Joe Torre story straight. On October 12th, he wrote an article entitled:If Yankees drag it out, Joe Torre may stand a chanceThe blurb under this headline on the back page read:The longer Yanks wait to make call, the better Torre's chancesPretty self-explanatory position, right? Yet a mere five days later, Madden has reversed course entirely, penning a column which proclaims:Yankee silence doesn't bode well for Joe TorreIf you're having difficulty following, just try to remember that the longer the Yankees wait to make a decision, the better (or worse) Torre's chances will be.
More About That Team from the Bronx 2007-10-15 23:02:00 IGN Sports' Dan Phillips has come up with a list of recommendations for the Yankees as they try to "right" the 94-win ship, with the premise that "The Yanks should wave goodbye to sentimentality." I can't argue with two of them, ("Let Joe Torre Walk" and "Sign A-Rod") but the other two represent the opposite of good advice:2) Let Jorge Posada WalkPosada is coming off the best season by an aging catcher in baseball history, which is precisely why the Yankees should let some other team get suckered into paying him the big bucks. Aging catchers inevitably break down into mere shells of their former selves, and what's worse, they do it suddenly and without warning. Do you really want to fork over a three-year, 45 million-dollar contract to Posada on the assumption that he'll defy one of the few universal truths in baseball and produce offensively well into his late thirties? Just ask Red Sox fans how that worked out with Jason Varitek. Just one year after signing their oft-injured star Read more:Bronx
Youth Gets Served 2007-10-15 17:07:00 If you're wondering how the Rockies have managed to extend their dominant performance deep into the NLCS, you might want to check out this out; Dan Bickley of The Arizona Republic treats us to an in-depth analysis of the series, explaining how exactly the Diamondbacks came to find themselves in an 0-3 hole entering Game 4. His conclusion:D-Backs show lack of experienceOh...is that it? Huh.To stay alive, the Diamondbacks will rely on Micah Owings, a guy who hasn't pitched in a major-league game since Sept. 27, against a team that has lost once since the middle of September. The odds are long, to say the least. And if you're wondering what happened to the team that won 90 games and clubbed the Cubs, here's a guess: The Diamondbacks finally are acting their age. Many of the mistakes made this series are blunders that young kids usually get out of their system on their way to the major leagues. They are no longer getting timely hits, and in 29 innings, they have led for only half an in
Let's Do This One More Time 2007-10-14 03:27:00 I'm really trying not to post about A-Rod, I swear. But they're not making it easy for me. And by "they," I mean Phil Rogers of the Chicago Tribune.The Yankees need to let Alex Rodriguez walk. If they pony up to give him the extension he wants—even if it's more in the range of a mere five years and $150 million, not 10 years and $300 million—they will be ignoring history, not learning from it. You simply can't buy success in the World Series.You can't buy a World Series victory, no. But you can buy better players, who give you a better chance of winning. It's true that playoff success is largely determined by luck, simply because of the small sample sizes involved. But it's not entirely luck; a bunch of Little Leaguers wouldn't be able to take a Major League team simply because it's October, a time when talent mysteriously no longer applies. Moreover, teams have to make the playoffs before they can compete for the World Series, and adding (or keeping) a player of A-Rod's
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