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bluecard
cardinals spend more than anyone in their division and most people will still ridicule their “lack of spending”.
Brixton
Now we can ridicule them for spending 30M on a meh reliever
patborders92
Brett Cecil cost the Jays more games than he helped them last year, he’s not worth that contract even with the rising prices of relievers
stl_cards16 2
He had an inflated HR/FB % last year. It will come down and he’ll be the same, very good RP he was for the last 3 years. And people that don’t know what they’re talking about will claim it’s because he moved to the NL.
Paul Miller
You’re right about the inflated HR/FB %. As good as Cecil has shown, especially from July to the playoffs of 2015, he can get into some bad droughts and then recover to save his previous stats.
I’m a big fan of Cecil and have watched almost every Jays game since he was a rookie, I hope he does better in the NL.
jdgoat
Cecil is a good pitcher. He will be back to normal next year
petrie000
only if/when their fans whine about the Cubs ‘buying’ a title
bluecard
I’ve never heard one person claim Chicago bought a title. not one.
chesteraarthur
I don’t put it past themed to say something like this (if he hasn’t already)
Ry.the.Stunner
I have. Several times. Try to deny it and you’ll get “But Lester, Lackey, Zobrist, and Heyward!”
stl_cards16 2
What the heck does that have to do with anything?
Brixton
The Cubs only paid like 3 major FAs petrie, anyone who says they bought a title is mistaken.
MB923
EVERY team “buys” a title. It’s just as stupid to say they didn’t buy it as it is to say they did buy it.
The Cubs are champs and won it fair and square and that’s all that matters.
bruinsfan94 2
I don’t really believe this argument. I think its pretty rare for teams to go all in on free agents, for a 1-2 two year shot at a World Series. One of the few examples that has really worked would be the 2009 Yankees.
hiflyer000
I don’t think players that accepted the QO should count here since they aren’t actually free agents until they formally turn it down.
Connor Byrne
I see your point. However, I’m going to leave them on here considering this is tied into our top 50 list. The players who took the QO were featured prominently in those rankings entering the offseason.
chesteraarthur
Maybe edit it to say qo?
Connor J. Byrne
Fair enough. I just added a brief QO mention to the intro.
CursedRangers
Who would have thought that Desmond would sign the largest overall contract for a 1B this offseason.
hojostache
In regard to Cespedes, it was a 9-figure deal.
Connor J. Byrne
Good catch. Fixed.
antonio bananas
should do it by AAV. this disproportionationately makes longer contracts look bad.
mikeyank55
The Mets are going to miss Bartolo from Opening Day until mid-August when they drop out of contention. Ownership did “what it had to” and once again their frugality stripped them of the chance to save the young arms. When it is all said and done, and their fans look back they will admit that the cheapness turned many of their young promising arms into often injured, washed up pitchers.
crazysull
Isn’t that what you are suppose to do? Get good players some way or another and have the end goal to be winning it all? I mean the Cubs are the least qualified team to say they bought a championship because other than Lester Lackey Heyward(who didn’t really do much) and Zobrist the majority of their team was already there and Chapman as well who cost them a fair amount to get. So just because they didn’t win a championship with only players they had in their system doesn’t mean they bought a championship. Heck I am a Red Sox fan and when we went out and signed Hanely and Sandavol I thought we were going to win it all for sure but look what happened we couldn’t buy the championship let alone the postseason. So what I am trying to say is that there is no such thing as buying a championship
davidcoonce74
People who think “buying a championship” is a real thing haven’t noticed the 2015 Padres or the last few years of the Dodgers.