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I think we should just be happy to be in a pennant race every 10 years or so.I believe there will be a day in the not to distant future. That teams start going under, because they just can't keep up the pace. Teams with the money can compete teams without it can't.
Its been 40+ year sense free agency came into affect. There wasn't a lot change at first, but as time goes on , and salaries keep going up. It's making a big difference.
Teams like the Reds are working on a 5 to 6 year windows, then the decent player are gone. And they start over again. The teams with money doesn't even need to develop players they use the minors to stock pile them.
Major League baseball has a history of being slow to do the right thing.
Over the past fifty years there have been changes that narrowed the competitive advantage the larger markets teams enjoy. But at the end of the day they've proven overall to be nominal at best.
Cozart signs a deal with the Angels
I think the Reds will miss this guy more than they missed Frazier or Phillips
All fans lament the changing of faces. I recall going back to the winter of 1960 when the Redlegs traded Roy McMillan to the Braves. Mac was the BESTEST EVER shortstop. I was 14, what the hell did I know. Cincy got Juan Pizzaro, a lefty, and Joey Jay, a 4th starter, for Mac. They flipped Pizzaro to the White Sox for a beat-up third baseman named Gene Freese.The defense hasn't improved with the departure of Cozart and Phillips, but both were showing signs of decline. Nevertheless the current options up the middle may always be inferior to those two and may require an eventual upgrade. I think Suarez's defense improved enough last season to equate to an upgrade at 3rd.
With the initial departure there appears to be a drop off, but Frazier and Phillips are both in decline. I'd say the same could be true for Cozart moving forward.
At some point it's always out with the old and in with the new.