Comments on: If I was Omar (Part 1) http://ifedeli.com/2008/10/05/if-i-was-omar-part-1/ the ordinary misadventures of flapjack fedeli Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:07:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: If I was Omar (part 2): The Bullpen | Ian Fedeli http://ifedeli.com/2008/10/05/if-i-was-omar-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-244 If I was Omar (part 2): The Bullpen | Ian Fedeli Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:43:16 +0000 http://ifedeli.com/?p=153#comment-244 [...] my main point from part 1, you may be expecting another one-stop-shop solution from me. You may be expecting me to advocate [...] [...] my main point from part 1, you may be expecting another one-stop-shop solution from me. You may be expecting me to advocate [...]

]]> By: ifedeli http://ifedeli.com/2008/10/05/if-i-was-omar-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-15 ifedeli Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:28:31 +0000 http://ifedeli.com/?p=153#comment-15 @Derek: I will certainly accept that CC would be BMOC in the Bronx and only Co-BMOC in Queens. I don't necessarily buy the argument that the Yankees can overpower the Mets in negotiations. Things have been different since the Yankees got really old and started losing. Assuming either can match the others offer in terms of money (which I think is fair...they can both pay him 30 mil a year if they wanted to), which would you pick if you were CC? The Mets have more proven pitching (less pitching prospects though) and they have a better young nucleus in Wright, Reyes, and Beltran. Obviously I'm biased, but if I'm CC, and I want the best chance to win (without giving anything up in salary), I'm picking the Mets. @Derek: I will certainly accept that CC would be BMOC in the Bronx and only Co-BMOC in Queens.
I don’t necessarily buy the argument that the Yankees can overpower the Mets in negotiations. Things have been different since the Yankees got really old and started losing. Assuming either can match the others offer in terms of money (which I think is fair…they can both pay him 30 mil a year if they wanted to), which would you pick if you were CC? The Mets have more proven pitching (less pitching prospects though) and they have a better young nucleus in Wright, Reyes, and Beltran. Obviously I’m biased, but if I’m CC, and I want the best chance to win (without giving anything up in salary), I’m picking the Mets.

]]> By: Derek http://ifedeli.com/2008/10/05/if-i-was-omar-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Derek Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:07:20 +0000 http://ifedeli.com/?p=153#comment-14 Oh, and CC would be BMOC of the staff in the Bronx. Not so to the south. Oh, and CC would be BMOC of the staff in the Bronx. Not so to the south.

]]> By: Derek http://ifedeli.com/2008/10/05/if-i-was-omar-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Derek Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:22:19 +0000 http://ifedeli.com/?p=153#comment-13 Oh, to have management that could afford CC.... Instead, lord knows what the Braves will do. We were injured out of the race by June (steroid hangovers from the pitching staff, anybody?), and Jeff Francoeur just lost it. Is Adam Dunn available? Willie Mays? Walter Johnson? On a more relevant note, you're not getting CC. Ever. An oracle on my shoulder tells me that he'll be playing a few dozen subway stops away. The Yankees can commit to the farm system and the free agency market simultaneously, so the new leaf doesn't have to be rotated 180 degrees. Beyond that, though, I love the point re: the end of the rotation. Managers and GMs too often think individually, not systemically (this is less true in other sports, perhaps because baseball is at its surface more of an individual game). In any case, you guys will threaten long before Turner's Misfits ever do. (God I wish he still owned the team...) Oh, to have management that could afford CC…. Instead, lord knows what the Braves will do. We were injured out of the race by June (steroid hangovers from the pitching staff, anybody?), and Jeff Francoeur just lost it. Is Adam Dunn available? Willie Mays? Walter Johnson?

On a more relevant note, you’re not getting CC. Ever. An oracle on my shoulder tells me that he’ll be playing a few dozen subway stops away. The Yankees can commit to the farm system and the free agency market simultaneously, so the new leaf doesn’t have to be rotated 180 degrees.

Beyond that, though, I love the point re: the end of the rotation. Managers and GMs too often think individually, not systemically (this is less true in other sports, perhaps because baseball is at its surface more of an individual game). In any case, you guys will threaten long before Turner’s Misfits ever do. (God I wish he still owned the team…)

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