Rockies Pitchers Should Have Spernt More Time on Pitching
Oct 30th 2007ericjhoroUncategorized
If only Jeff Francis had spent more time working on his slider and less time on laundry…
To randomly change the subject, Bill Simmons’ wrote a surprisingly good column regarding the Red Sox victory in which he makes an excellent point about the Yankees and Red Sox finally learning what to do with their money. They’ve realized teams are no longer allowing their good players to hit free agency and therefore the best thing for them to do with their money is invest it in their farm systems. Now they’re spending a lot on draft picks (see: Brackman, Andrew) and Latin American operations.
Just Imagine if Latin American scouting improves enough that every decent player gets gobbled up by big market teams. Imagine if instead of spending $5 million on a garbage middle reliever, the Red Sox hire 50 full time scouts, statisticians, or analysts. Don’t you think that will give them an insurmountable advantage over the Royals? It should be interesting to see what happens in the next few years.
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