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Originally Posted by thebigeasy59
I feel like if everyone argues this for another couple hundred posts, someone will change their mind.
sure, but i mean, chapman is going to make more money (and more AAV in some to potentially all) than any of encarnacion (3.9 WAR), desmond (3.3 WAR), turner (5.6 WAR), fowler (4.7 WAR). that's not really defensible and goes to show how warped and inefficient the closer market has become. people seem to have a pretty misguided idea of cause and effect concluding the indians and cubs got to the world series because of miller and chapman respectively to the point that everyone's tripping over their own dicks to be the ones who overpay for one of these guys. i didn't think melancon at 62/4 would actually be a value signing
my overall point is i think the winners in this situation are going to be the ones who fly under the radar with their bullpen construction (trading for non-closers, building from within, that sort of thing) as opposed to the ones who make the splashy moves that are either prohibitively expensive on the open market or hugely detrimental in terms of prospects being traded, and of course the sellers
Last edited by TheTenderVigilante; 12-07-2016 at 02:24 PM.