While We’re Waiting… Buying low on Bynum
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July 11, 2013
Andrew Bynum signs with the Cavs and Scott and I were planning on talking anyway so we talked about it and everything else.
- Andrew Bynum and Craig Robertson’s tweet about Britney Griner in Dallas
- Choosing vs. money and basketball reasons
- $6 million guaranteed with incentive based money at $6 million
- Nobody is guaranteeing Andrew Bynum is going to be a success
- The Alonzo Gee theory of roster building for depth
- There will be no naysayers for this free agency signing tomorrow
- Byron Scott going backwards
- The Browns and the PR and game experience news
- The Josh Cribbs Soulja Boy thing
- Do you think the fan experience changes the crowd enough that it could affect the game on the field?
- Cleveland Browns PSLs and why the team got rid of them
- The league and how PSLs are pretty standard around the league
- Cliff Lee and if there’s any chance at bringing him back
- Scott blames Twitter for everything
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nice job, guys. Two things:
– for those negative about the Bynum move and say “what did the Cavs see that others didn’t,” answer is nothing. It’s what Bynum saw: more guaranteed money and potential for most money. Sure, maybe Mike Brown pumped him up over the phone but that’s also standard post-agreement agent talk. A team with a better offer would have gotten him more pumped. This is the first reward for Grant’s cap space fetish.
– Re Scott’s belief that we overstate the trade cost of a top of rotation starter by using Cliff Lee as an example, that’s an outcome determinative analysis. Just because the prospects Lee brought mostly didn’t pan out doesn’t mean they weren’t the most highly ranked by both teams involved in the trade. It just means minor league player projection is not an exact science. Not so long ago the Yankees refused to part with Phil Hughes or Joba Chamberlain, now they’re trying to dump both. We didn’t want to give up both Alex White and Pomeranz for Ubaldo, we demanded LaPorta for CC, etc. The league’s best starters fetch the top prospects, not the 4th or 5th best. Whether the selling team accurately evaluates the prospect is a separate issue.