It seems to me, just from being here now through two seasons that - you're either going for it... or you're tanking.
The teams in the middle, seem to be there by accident or know their time is maybe just one season away.
The Noise were a pretty bad baseball team this year. We lost 90 games, though we did turn a profit. But even by losing 90 games, the Noise will be drafting outside the Top 10 next year. In fact, I think I am picking #13 if my memory serves me correctly? And that's excluding any unsigned first rounders from the previous year.
So we lost 90 games and were still better than 40% of the league?
To put that into MLB perspective, in the last five years the most amount of teams losing more than 90 games was actually last year with 8. The previous four years were 7-6-6-7.
So if you lost 90 games, you were better than about one quarter of the sport over the last five years.
That's a drastic difference.
So am I wrong to build the way I am building, or am I stubborn for doing it? I'm not sure.
I am starting to wonder if a lottery system is not needed here though.
To reward blatant tanks to me, does damage to the competitive balance. But hey, maybe I'm wrong - since we have what 12 teams potentially tanking plus another handful who probably gained success because of a tank - I'm sure the majority doesn't stand with me on this concept.
If I can trade Madrid, I will. I wouldn't be doing it to tank - I'd be doing it to get out of his contract (which is becoming more team friendly) but also get him a chance to win a ring.
But maybe I should just DFA my entire big league roster and collect top picks for a few years instead?
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