Comments on: Tampa’s Role Players

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:41:01 +0000

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/09/built-with-firs.html

The analysis above on mlbtraderumors looks at this question a different way using WARP and comparing playoff teams. Interesting read suggesting other playoff teams have been more builty off first round picks than the Rays.

By: _David_

_David_ — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:23:05 +0000

To bolster your point, Kazmir came via trade and Crawford was a second round pick -two more players not acquired with top-of-the-draft picks. On a side note: I find it hilarious that many in the media think it’s the veteran presence of Floyd and Hinske (two smart, low risk moves btw) that’s made all the difference.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:33:22 +0000

Looks like faceplant has been drinking.

The Rays are laying out a blueprint for how to run a franchise. Lincoln and Armstrong would do well if they hired Tampa’s mail room intern for GM.

By: faceplant

faceplant — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:27:00 +0000

Your biased opionons of ichiro vs ibanez ruin any argumant u try to make

By: JH

JH — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:19:08 +0000

Looking at it even simpler without having to consider WPA, Tampa Bay’s first round draft picks – the direct results of their years of futility – accounted for 19% of the team’s ABs this year, and 1.7% of the team’s innings pitched. There are other first round draft picks on the squad, but they were all the result of shrewd moves on the part of management.

Tampa Bay’s winning this year is the result of damn good management.

By: R M

R M — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:10:14 +0000

I agree that that claim is unfair in all ways. One point I didn’t see in the article though is that being bad for a long time doesn’t make a team magically good. What has 16 years of being horrible done to the pirates? Nothing, because the management bombed draft after draft. The Rays, on the other hand, have drafted a high-impact MLB player who moves swiftly through the MiLB pretty much every year, and not even all of them are peaking this year. That’s not luck.

Also, what makes good drafting worse than the teams that perennially compete because they spend tons of money on big-name players? Whoever made that point is probably just a jealous Yankees fan….