This is a case where it seems obvious that what you say must be true, but you also need to have some stats bear it out. And they do apparently keep stats on this s***, which seems a little crazy, but not really surprising.
Yankee fans all over Boone about his passiveness, as displayed in the 9th yesterday when Walker got rung up on a questionable call and got into it with the ump. Boone was just chewing his gum the whole time, as one poster put it.
But as you alluded to with the Masterson reference, sometimes you make the wrong picks. And you can do this when you're spending big too. HanRam, Panda, Castillo cost a quarter billion after all.
Any GM could have signed Koji Uehara before the 2013 season too. Does Ben deserve a lot of credit for being the guy who actually did it? Damn right IMO. If you can't give someone credit for pulling the trigger on a good move, what can you give credit for?
Instead of just popping questions, why not just supply the answer if you have it. But you'll have to expand this to how many teams could put together a comparable package including packages of 3 or 4.