04-21-2017, 07:10 PM
(04-06-2017, 10:24 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: I expect a season of a lot of peaks and valleys. When they're going good, we'll see the talent of these young players. When it's going bad, we'll see their inexperience.
Well... after a strong start things cooled. finnegan misses a few starts, disco + Homer are still out ,as is Mesoraco.
I grew up on the Reds then was omn the west Coast. The aA"s HAD a lot of great talent pass thru, but as time passed it was clear that a LOW budget team has a very short window. Just as they built something... they'd fire sale stars they could not afford. for awhile they seemed to reboot well.. but as things CHANGEDyou have LESS time between when a player becomes GOOD and when he's out of the $ zone you can afford. We got a couple PRIME years from Cueto,Frazier,Chapman. Now they are gone. Baseball is SCREWED up for the small market teams. maybe 5-6 teams can afford to compete every year.
Others can peak.. but then they have to sell off their top stuff. Basketball + Football have CAPS to keep the WHOL:E league relevant. Eventually baseball needs to do the same or the smaller cities will see that the whole thing is a stacked deck.
