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Originally Posted by satchel
In your game, you'd prefer for a player, whose injury makes him permanently ineffective, to "flounder for several seasons on benches," instead of just retiring? In my universe, that's dead weight, and a situation which I have no desire to model.
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Why are you putting words in my mouth? Where did I say "permanent" or "ineffective"? The word I used was marginal- you know, as in "debatably useful"? In any case, it is realistic- or at least infinitely more so than it is now. Only in hindsight can you say he's "dead weight". If you didn't have the exact ratings to look at, you'd never know he wouldn't eventually recover to some semblance of his former self. Do you think Mo Vaughn would have hung around for as long as he did had it not been for his incredible history of past production? I never said YOU personally have to take a chance on a guy- go ahead- cut him- other teams or GM's may not be as clairvoyant as you, or may want to assume that risk. This happens every single day with players in baseball. I never claimed it was the most appetizing part of the game. On the other hand, the other side of that coin is a team like Cincinnati claiming Josh Hamilton in the Rule 5 draft 3 years ago...How did that turn out?
I have no desire to sign a guy to $100MM contract and watch him go into the pooper soon after either, but you can't argue that it happens- or that it isn't realistic....You're saying you would rather know the instant a guy passes his expiration date so you can cut him? How does that in any way, shape or form resemble the game of baseball? We'll just have to agree to disagree, I guess.