02-07-2009, 07:11 PM
<!--quoteo(post=16664:date=Feb 7 2009, 05:08 PM:name=Clapp)-->QUOTE (Clapp @ Feb 7 2009, 05:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=16661:date=Feb 7 2009, 03:57 PM:name=bz)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bz @ Feb 7 2009, 03:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->To add a different perspective, if this were the NBA you could totally add a Robert Horry or Steve Kerr and assume that a good percentage of the time they can make that last shot. You can pay a guy to be clutch here. You know what you're getting.
You can do the same thing with the NFL and add a Vinatieri or Elam--both paid to be clutch.
But baseball doesn't work that way, and it's a bad bad bad philosophy for a GM to take.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm not talking about like secondary players though, I'm talking about talented players such as Milton Bradley, that also have the attitude we should be looking for. Adam Dunn and Milton Bradley might look even to people for example as options for the outfield, but I think OUR team should be 100 times more interested in Bradley than Dunn because of his attitude and likelihood to do well in October where we've failed miserably for 100 years.
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Ok, but they can both score runs early in the game so I don't see the point? That what separates them is their "clutchness"? I think it's a mistake to try to quantify an intangible like clutchness.
You can do the same thing with the NFL and add a Vinatieri or Elam--both paid to be clutch.
But baseball doesn't work that way, and it's a bad bad bad philosophy for a GM to take.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm not talking about like secondary players though, I'm talking about talented players such as Milton Bradley, that also have the attitude we should be looking for. Adam Dunn and Milton Bradley might look even to people for example as options for the outfield, but I think OUR team should be 100 times more interested in Bradley than Dunn because of his attitude and likelihood to do well in October where we've failed miserably for 100 years.
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Ok, but they can both score runs early in the game so I don't see the point? That what separates them is their "clutchness"? I think it's a mistake to try to quantify an intangible like clutchness.
If Angelo had picked McClellin, I would have been expecting to hear by training camp that kid has stage 4 cancer, is actually 5'2" 142 lbs, is a chick who played in a 7 - 0 defensive scheme who only rotated in on downs which were 3 and 34 yds + so is not expecting to play a down in the NFL until the sex change is complete and she puts on another 100 lbs. + but this is Emery's first pick so he'll get a pass with a bit of questioning. - 1060Ivy