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Originally posted by Jestre
I will bet Jax and all the other tanking apologists that when this team is ready to make its move and brings up Boggs and Mattingly it will also bring up other younger players that are in the 19-22 year range. In other words I bet this team will wait until all the pieces are in place in the minors and bring them all up together and be a power. He is basically just hiding talent til he has enough stocked up by inflating his draft position.... Boggs and Mattingly should be in the majors with those ratings, and possibly/probably be allstars... You can make all the excuses you want, its tanking.
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Well, of course the young players are more likely to be promoted then, since the team will have a better chance at winning. The reason being that there is that exchange a year of low salary on a lesser player because the player is better than what is available and the likelihood of winning and making it to the playoffs.
I think that the issue for commissioners isn't the morality of the specific situation here, but rather creating a bad precedent that others can follow or worse, can't follow. If the commissioner dictates that having Boggs and Mattingly in the minors, despite their age, because they are better the players on the current major league roster is tanking, where is the line drawn? Does every quality rookie need to be promoted, would a good team have to promote a youngster of this caliber if they had an equal or even slightly worse regular, can teams effectively prepare when to promote talent en masse to jump start?
As a commissioner, I wouldn't want to have to say to an owner, "Look, I know it's your team, but Boggs and Mattingly have to be starting, because I think that you otherwise aren't giving 100% to your team." It sets bad precedent and creates hard feelings. I think what is lost here is that as a commissioner, every action you take beyond the ordinary with a team, is something that all of your other owners know about and live with.
How do you promote these two players and say, this is just a one time thing with Owner X? You really can't, because the situation happened and everyone knows about. You've alienated owner X, who will quit at being told what to do and the rest of your owners will have doubt in their minds that their freedom to enjoy their teams in the way they choose is imperiled by a heavyhanded commissioner. Something to think about.