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Gary Trujillo's avatar

Their MO isn't to be "good," it's to be slightly below average with one or two guys that can sell jerseys.

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Ben Beane's avatar

It's such an outdated strategy of small-market teams. The Rays and A's have graduated from that line of thinking years ago and are much better off for it.

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Gary Trujillo's avatar

Have they? The A's only spent money this year because the league forced them. They'll be back to spending as little as possible as long as John Fisher owns that team.

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Ben Beane's avatar

Oh, I was referring to the guys that can sell jerseys aspect - a-la A's Matt Holiday, Frank Thomas, etc. When they would add one big washed name to a crap team to sell jerseys. Seems like most smarter teams have abandoned that strategy and just truly bottomed out.

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Adam Zeek's avatar

If they didn’t have so much history, I’d be in favor of contracting the pirates.

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Ben Beane's avatar

Storied franchises in the gutter is one of the saddest things in sports.

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