Oh, Jorge
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This is me slow-clapping Jorge Posada, savvy enough to sign that 4-year deal just months before his arm fell apart.
Normally I just laugh at people who steal the Yankees’ money, like Carl Pavano, and Jorge here. But I’d like to take in the larger picture here, to add seriously that 36-year-old catchers with abberationally productive years deserve not four-year deals. Let ‘em walk. All of ‘em. Or make them sign one- or two-year deals like the players on the downslope of their careers that they are.
The steroids era has so changed our conception of productivity that we can assume older players can stay effective as long as we’d like them to, when in reality their numbers can vanish instantly. The slope needn’t be slight.
Humanity inches its way back into baseball.
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