04-21-2010, 11:13 PM
<!--quoteo(post=91959:date=Apr 21 2010, 09:55 PM:name=Gracie)-->QUOTE (Gracie @ Apr 21 2010, 09:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=91951:date=Apr 21 2010, 09:37 PM:name=jstraw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (jstraw @ Apr 21 2010, 09:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=91950:date=Apr 21 2010, 09:34 PM:name=Gracie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Gracie @ Apr 21 2010, 09:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->As long as Soriano hits this well, I won't be too upset about his defense. Still doesn't make him worth $19 million, though, and that's my main complaint about him.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You'd be ok with the way he's been playing if he were making league minimum?
Roster spots are rarer than dollars.
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Yeah, I'd be really happy with him if he was making league minimum. Then there would be no pressure to play him when he slumps for two or three months at the time.
Baseball teams do not exist in a vacuum - players have value, and though Soriano has hit well this season, he is nowhere near as valuable as his salary suggests he should be. And when you have several players who are underperforming relative to their salary, it hamstrings your ability to add payroll to bring in players who can fix your deficiencies.
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My point is...and I'm not sure we really disagree...that at some point, you don't bench a player that plays really badly, you vacate the roster spot through one of a variety of means and get someone different in there. The problem with Soriano's salary isn't that he's not giving us $19M worth of play, it's that it makes him upgradeable.
Yes, you can simply release a player making minimum and pay him off...I'm not going to be obtuse and pretend not to understand that his salary creates impediments to improving the roster. It does...but the problem is that it ties the teams hands with regard to the roster spot. There's no right price to pay in order to keep a shitty player on the roster.
You'd be ok with the way he's been playing if he were making league minimum?
Roster spots are rarer than dollars.
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Yeah, I'd be really happy with him if he was making league minimum. Then there would be no pressure to play him when he slumps for two or three months at the time.
Baseball teams do not exist in a vacuum - players have value, and though Soriano has hit well this season, he is nowhere near as valuable as his salary suggests he should be. And when you have several players who are underperforming relative to their salary, it hamstrings your ability to add payroll to bring in players who can fix your deficiencies.
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My point is...and I'm not sure we really disagree...that at some point, you don't bench a player that plays really badly, you vacate the roster spot through one of a variety of means and get someone different in there. The problem with Soriano's salary isn't that he's not giving us $19M worth of play, it's that it makes him upgradeable.
Yes, you can simply release a player making minimum and pay him off...I'm not going to be obtuse and pretend not to understand that his salary creates impediments to improving the roster. It does...but the problem is that it ties the teams hands with regard to the roster spot. There's no right price to pay in order to keep a shitty player on the roster.