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    Baseball's Free Agency System Is Seriously, Seriously Screwed Up
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Baseball's Free Agency System Is Seriously, Seriously Screwed Up
    So who does win? Just like with the luxury tax, it's the teams that can't or won't spend money. Too cheap to hang on to your home grown superstars? No worries, they're a Type A and you'll receive another potential star just for being stingy

    Yeah, fuck you Milwaukee fans, you may have lost CC Sabathia because the Yankees offered him infinity billion dollars for an indefinite number of years, but you got a first-round draft pick out of it, who has about a 30% chance of ever playing in the major leagues. You selfish pricks have all the luck. #freeagency
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Baseball's Free Agency System Is Seriously, Seriously Screwed Up
    "•Stolen bases aren't taken into account. That's the most glaring, since a player who can single, then steal second 95 percent of the time, is unquestionably valuable. That extra base is akin to a huge jump in slugging percentage. Which reminds us..."

    First, that player does not exist. Nobody's stolen base percentage is that high. Second, it isn't akin to a huge jump in slugging percentage, because a big part of the benefit of a high slugging percentage is that you drive around runners on base ahead of you. Stolen bases by definition do not do that.

    But hey, the post is by the resident Yankee fan, who somehow turns this into a story about how the small market teams get all the breaks, so I'm pretty sure that understanding the subject was pretty low on the list of priorities. #freeagency
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Baseball's Free Agency System Is Seriously, Seriously Screwed Up
    Doesn't the NFL base the draft pick reward for Restr. FA on contract amount? That seems fairer than this stupidity. #freeagency
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    11/11/09

    @atl_matt: I thought about that, but in a salary cap-less league, money is probably an even worse indicator of talent. #freeagency
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Baseball's Free Agency System Is Seriously, Seriously Screwed Up
    "Lack of African-Americans in the game"

    That's really a problem?
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    11/10/09

    @replacementrefs001: [www.articlesbase.com] #freeagency
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