17th. | How To Create a Major League Baseball Team

I'm creating this post with mainly one team in mind -- THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS. Now, I've never seen the team play, so I can't actually judge. I just wanted to say the above, so you could at least understand my train of thought.

I, of course, am not in any position AT ALL to tell someone how to manage their team. So everything I'm going to type to the WWW... (world-wide-web) Is simply MY opinion. Now, to me, the key to making a good team is: examine what you have.

If your strong suit is seemingly pitching, then make that the corner-stone of your team. If defense, likewise. This applies to basically everything baseball. If you're REALLY good at it, make it the corner-stone of your team. But there is one rare exception... If your offense is the corner stone of your team, there's only one thing I can suggest. Trade! I know this sounds crazy -- but honestly, I'm being serious. It's not about the amount of runs you put on the board, it's about the amount of runs you prevent the OTHER team from putting on the board.

How do I know this? Without going too deep into the matter... Last year, my beloved Detroit Tigers were the odds on favorite to go all the way to the world series. This, of course, pleased me. Experts expected the team to produce over 1,000 runs that year. And for those who don't know, that's quite a gem. Needless to say, expectation's were high. So, how did the season turn out? Stunning, really. And not in a good way. We finished last in our division and finished the season with a losing record. How could this have been avoided? Really, we needed better pitching. But instead, our corner-stone was offense.

So just what exactly am I saying? Every team should trade their power hitters? Now don't get me wrong, you want/need a good offensive club. And by no means am I saying a struggling team should trade their sluggers. (that would be dumb, obviously.) What I am saying, however, is that if you can get 2-4 mediocre players for 1 REALLY good player, maybe that's the better route to take. Trade one great for a few good. Get the drift? I'm not saying this is what every team should do... But instead, it should be what a few teams do. Now, assume you've got 3 REALLY good players. But the rest of your team is pretty bad. You can fill in all the blanks, if you'd just trade some of your better players.

Okay, so that's my two cents. Agree or not, that's my opinion. And just encase anyone actually cares, and nobody does, I've compiled a few player's name's I think teams should be willing to trade for/acquire.

Pitchers:

• Juan Rincon
• Kenny Rogers? (He's good, but also old.)
  
• Valerio de los Santos? (He's been struggling.)
  
• Aquilino Lopez
• ROY HALLADAY!! (...What?)
  

Positional Players:

• Richie Sexson (1B)
  
• Chris Shelton (1B)
• Vance Wilson (C) (He hasn't played for a couple seasons...)
  
• Gregg Zaun (C)
  
• Mike Hessman (3B - 1B)
  
• Cameron Maybin (OF) (Might be hard to acquire, but worth it.)

Please, don't ridicule me for posting this. Peace and love everyone, log back soon!