04-02-2015, 12:14 PM
(04-02-2015, 11:33 AM)mike Wrote: Some concerns are valid here rocky. To be fair to matty though our draft file is far from perfect here in FCM land that by adding these 10 guys to a draft could fix. Currently there is no such thing as a utility player. And if by some miracle one does show up we will really never know as you'd have to find it out by trial and error by playing them at each position in the majors and see how they do. Can't say that's a very realistic or productive way of using up a players service time. Secondly almost all 1B are the high power/high eye type or high contact no power type. That could be fixed by injecting some of these guys into the file. Lastly you bring up high large markets. Not having utility players in a file hurts a small market way more than ever losing a pick that one year would (you gain the pick back next year anyway). By not having utility guys to have proper depth we instead need to carry 5 guys on our bench that cover our health issue players in our lineup. Plus then a few extra in our minors to cover the rest. For literally 0 effort on our part we could gain something very useful. If you don't want to follow the draft file you wouldn't have to like matty said.
the best you can come up with is "well it helps with the utility players" sorry but that don't cut it for me. how many mlb players in real life are super utility players that can hit and field in the infield and outfield? not many, cause most that can hit and field are starters somewhere. now most super utility players in mlb can play multiple positions in the infield or outfield and hit some. but, you can find that in this file. not a ton, but not a ton in real life either. in FA you can usually find an OF that can play all 3 OF positions for pretty cheap and that can hit a little too. and in real life, most teams have 4 or 5 bench spots as well, most have 5. so i don't think the utility player problem is nearly as bad as most want to say. sure, it's not as much as it was in the past, but look around in real life, not all that much different.
i never said this file is perfect, but i like it like this a hell of a lot more than using what matty wants to do here.
at this point, everything you can say is moot, because as i said in my previous post, "a top talent in the draft could have very low signability and falls to one of the playoff teams and they take a chance (cause they were good and he looks like one of top players in the draft) and they end up getting lucky with rolls and they get to sign a top talent at the backend of the 1st round. I mean you’re just letting the rich get richer." that is something that's very real and no matter what is said, i'll never condone this or side with this. this will do far more harm than good. i'll never ever be for that and that will be a huge problem for me if this league allows this (which i don't think the league would).
and if matty did come out and say well no big players would be done like this, then only utility types would be? what the fuck is the point of messing with the thing just for that? you can find solid utility players in this file right now, you just gotta look. sure, they aren't perfect, but it likely wouldn't be realistic if a super utility player can play defense everywhere and hit pretty good too, cause at that point, he's a starting player somewhere on some team. if a team does have one of them, another team that needs a ss or something hard to find will come a calling and offer up something more valuable to the team than them keeping a super utility player. we'll still have this problem, so no no no.
mike, i don't want to argue more with you, i know your stance, you know mine, but this isn't going to help nearly like some may think, i guarantee you that. i said pretty much the problems with this, more harm than good, sorry but that's the truth, and i don't care for the league to implement this then seasons pass and then find out the hard way what just happened. it's not hard to see at all.