(04-25-2023, 08:45 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(04-25-2023, 07:46 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: It sounds to me like what Baalke is saying is, in spite of all the yearly arguing among ourselves about whether we should draft for need or draft for value, having to make that choice is actually very rare.  So we're arguing about something that rarely happens, at least according to Baalke.

Thing is, I don't know of many here (other than one) that is black and white need or value and never the twain shall meet. Most of us have been arguing that like Baalke, the aim is to find where need and value overlap. It's extremely rare that a GM is going to lean entirely toward need or entirely toward value. Those are the GMs that are going to be in trouble if their picks miss or their trades end up lopsided against them.

Are you saying that it is rare that a GM darfts where the value aligns with a position of need? Because to me that is the exact opposite of what Baalke suggested above.

It's just like car shopping man. You go into a dealership with a price range in mind, you know where you're willing to overspend or where you're drawing a line in the sand. Sometimes you go in and get out looking for exactly what you wanted, or, sometimes, the flashy car, with the highest trim, heavier engine, and leather interior convinces you to spend a little more and enjoy it. 

At the end of the day? You're walking out of that [BLEEP] place with a new car and feeling a lot better than you did before you walked in. Only time will tell as to whether or not you made the right decision, but, you won't really give a [BLEEP] about any of that until you've managed to put 100K miles on it or it malfunctions and goes to [BLEEP] before you expected anything like that to happen.

That's when a warranty is crucial.

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