Last year Cruz was nearly a freebie. We weren't paying $14M for THAT cruz. We were paying $14M for THIS Cruz. In '15 we had Hank Aaron. Well the '67 version of the Hammer, anyway: '67 Hank was .307-.369-.573/'15 Cruz was .302-.369-.566.
Come to think of it, Aaron's career #'s are .307-.374-.555! We did have a run-of-the-mill Aaron in '15. And that's Hank, not Tommie.
This year our $14M is just buying us Eddie Matthews: .271-.376-.509. Hey, you can't just go out and buy an Eddie Matthews off the corner bargain rack at K-Mart, you know.
If Cruz gets to 30 (a fair bet) and finishes at .841, then we are still way ahead for our 28 million clams.
But that was kind of your point, wasn't it Doc?
I'll just ride shotgun on this one then, if you don't mind.
Keith