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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, February 18, 2021Brian Dozier, an All-Star for the Twins, retires at 33
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1. salvomania Posted: February 19, 2021 at 09:44 AM (#6005785)Brain Dozier, 2016
through May: .202/.294/.329, 5 homers, 21 runs, 17 rbi (46 games)
June-October: .294/.358/.631, 37 homers, 83 runs, 82 rbi (109 games)
There have been a few guys like that, where I lost patience and just cut 'em---didn't even try to work a trade, just cut 'em---and they immediately caught fire.
Two young guys I did that with recently were Kyle Tucker, last year (severe roster crunch, small rosters with only 2 DL spots), and Ozzie Albies, in 2019.
With Tucker, 22 games into the 60-game season he was hitting .193/.227/.349, and I cut him; he went .317/.386/.619 the rest of the way.
With Albies, I had Keston Hiura in my minor-league spot, and when Hiura was called up to the Brewers in late May, Albies was hitting just .255/.311/.417 through the Braves' first 50 games, and I cut him. He was pounced on in the league's weekly free-agent draft, and then hit .314/.371/.539 the rest of the way, finishing with 24 homers, 102 runs, and 86 rbi.
Why is that idiotic?
He retires with a gold glove, an all-star appearance, a ring, two World Series trips, 102 HRs, 1000+ hits. Guys like that get forgotten by history, but it's fun to have an opportunity to reflect on his career at this point. My favorite anecdote about him is that he learned Spanish on his own time because he thought it would make him a better teammate with so many Latino teammates. I think he also spent time in the winters building houses in poor countries in Latin-America. Seems like a very good guy.
and he's living the dream
are the Mets where infielders go to die, or are there other teams that also put out the welcome mat for such washed-up players?
Starting from the most important to silliest:
- the players most in need of the pension are the ones who didn't play 10 years. Everyone with 10 years of service time hit arb and FA, so they have enough money that the pension is a nice bonus. The pension should be plugging the gap for guys who made the majors, were in the union, but didn't make it long enough to get a big payday. Given the diminishing marginal value of money, that's the most efficient use of it.
- the pension doesn't adjust for playing time, only roster time. So a guy like Brian Dozier with 4900 PAs doesn't get a full pension, while Frankie Cervelli, with 2600PAs, would fully vest this season if he makes a team.
- the pension doesn't adjust for position. so starting pitchers who (historically) risked shorter careers are prejudiced; low-usage relievers get a windfall
- 10 years is a totally arbitrary number that doesn't connect with average career length.
If you were actually constructing a pension to serve the union membership, you'd have it max out at the amount of service before someone hits FA, and then cap it. And the structure would be different for pitchers and hitters, reflecting the different injury risk.
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