There were runners at first and second, so the intentional walk was a questionable move.
But if there was only a runner at second and everything else was the same, the intentional walk would have been a no-brainer, right?
It wasn't an overpay compared to other contracts for top closers, though, which is what is normally used as comps for analysis purposes.
Sure you can find some examples of similar production for less money, but you have to cherry-pick.
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.