www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

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There is NO WAY teams like Baltimore, Toronto, and Tampa can keep up with Boston and NY.


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There’s no reason an upstart like Washington should out-compete the Braves and Mets either but they do

Braves is a better comparison but even if the Nationals were in the AL East, they cannot afford to make a $20 to 30 million a year mistake; Yankees and teams like Boston can.

That's where the difference lies. Being able to make a mistake of that level "go away." O's have been destroyed by the Chris Davis contract. Just look at all the players they had to let skate.


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>That's where the difference lies. Being able to make a mistake
>of that level "go away." O's have been destroyed by the Chris
>Davis contract. Just look at all the players they had to let
>skate.

Villar wasn't hurting anyone's pockets. But they cut him because if you can't be good, the next best thing to be is cheap. Just cutting a 3-4 win player in his 3rd year of arbitration because he was going to cost something close to market rate is not Chris Davis' fault. That's an institutional decision, feels like Mike Elias is trying to be the 2011-2013 Astros on the way to being the 2017-2019 Astros.

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Just saying they seem to have gone a little overboard in the course of embracing the process

instead of striking people out.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

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