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Do large dollar, free-agent pitching contracts actually work out?

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That is true, but the issue for the team signing the playing is whether that track is about to come to an end. Most of these large signings are based on past performance without real projection of what the future would be. I know Zips and others do it on Fangraphs and I am sure that the analytic departments have the ability. Projections mean more than the track record for the contract, the track record opens the door, the projections close it.

I get your point, but I argue that teams knowingly take on those risks when signing players. It's part of the deal.

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  • Otto von Ballpark
    Otto von Ballpark

    The job of the Twins front office is not to identify the number of bad FA pitching contracts and simply sit the whole market out. Their job is to do their best to make one of the good FA SP contracts.

  • The last few years are likely to be bad. But if you know that and plan for it, and see it as the price you have to pay, yes. If you want real value the last year or two, no.

  • diehardtwinsfan
    diehardtwinsfan

    I would say they are generally fine in the beginning, not so much towards the end. The real moral is that this what you have to do to compete if you have no talent in house to fill it with or surplus

 

I get your point, but I argue that teams knowingly take on those risks when signing players. It's part of the deal.

You are right, but that does not mean it should continue

 

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