Bogaerts has Old School Stats that stack up very well against All-Star shortstops over the years. A .304 BA, 41 RBI, only 5 errors. Those are outstanding Old School numbers for a SS.
The Jays have dropped 9 of 13 and are back to .500. Emptying the farm for Cueto sounds like a pretty bad idea. But emptying the farm for rental aces hasn't been the trend anyway. Just look at last year.
I think this is a fallacy.
The Sox have won 3 World Series with Ortiz as fulltime DH.
The Yankees have tried that rotating DH thing and gotten s*** production out of it. In 2013 they got a .583 OPS from DH. In 2014 they got a .662.
Iglesias was also being paid only about $2 million a year by us-it was a total commitment of $10 or $12 million I think.
With Rusney we're talking about a $72 million investment.
That's true.
My point is how things are set up to be wide open now. If the season ended today, Baltimore and Minnesota would play off for the second wild card. With .524 winning pcts., those two teams are on pace for only 85 wins.
It's Bud Selig's wet dream come true. With parity and two wild cards in each league, even a 39-45 team, and most importantly their paying fans, can still believe they have a shot.