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BeerAndPoker
You can go out and stack a team in baseball but it don't matter sometimes. The blame will get placed all over from the coach, to certain players hitting numbers down, to the bull pen, to the GM. With the exception of Verlander you can't blame the Tigers starting pitching for anything.
Tigers made enough moves over the past couple seasons all across the board. Not many teams have a good hitting catcher in this league so you look for someone who is good defensively and can bring a little contribution as far as hitting goes.
Lets look at one thing many of us were saying back in March. "The Tigers should be going after Stephen Drew". LMAO! Now based on what he has done this year that is money well saved along with one less cancer to complain about.
Even if you have what might appear to be as close as you can get to "The Perfect Team" it don't mean you will even make the playoffs in baseball. It never really did but less so in today's world Every team will have weaknesses and all you can do is try to have way more strengths hoping it sets you up to be a top contender.
Small market teams are also finding ways to win on much smaller budgets. The Twins did it for years and now several other teams are doing it too.
On another note Scherzer was spectacular today.
What does this mean? Its a recurring theme in your posts. The best team probably will make the playoffs. The law of large numbers rather guarantees, it as opposed to say football.
Playoffs have fewer games, of course. More variance but the better team takes it more often than not.
gonna be fun anyway