This Indians shook off the disappointment of dropping two to the Tigers and made Terry Francona’s return to Boston that much more enjoyable with a 12-3 shellacking of the BoSox, and in today’s B-List, Buff looks at the continued success of Zach McAllister, lauds Scott Barnes’ first career save, considers whether offensive star Drew Stubbs is a net asset, and points out an occurrence that is as rare as a Yan Gomes triple. He also takes what he hopes are his final cheap shots at David Huff. Godspeed, Mr. Huff.
If we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that ... (1) You can’t just throw money at the open market and assume things will play out the way Bills James and his boys say it should in their ZiPS projections.  (2) It’s not always a good idea to award mammoth contracts to guys who are in their 30s or about to hit their 30’s. (3) For a variety of reasons that only hindsight can help explain, players who sign long-term lucrative deals with another team other than their own, have historically underachieved more often than not.
An ex-big league general manager recently joked about a trade he’d made. He’d given up a lot for an aging star- but hey, he had not originally given up that much for those players. So, he rationalized that through the combination of the two trades, he’d made a nice deal. Sure, the entire ‘transaction’ played out over several years, but so what?
Unbelievable?