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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
This was explained literally thousands of times on this board during the season to the Royal fans who love Billy, but it never sank in. He's slow and he GIDP like crazy and he makes $8M and he hit only 15HR and you can platoon other regulars in that spot and get the same production. Yet our fans still continued to think he was Miggy Cabrera's peer. It was pathetic.
A Butler who hits like he did in 2012 with 300-29-110 or whatever is a valuable DH. But even then he only had a 3.0 WAR. Numbers don't lie.
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I was wondering when you'd chime in.
2013: Billy had the second highest WAR for a DH.
You've never responded to this point, nor do I expect you to. In addition, please point us to alternatives who would have outdone or matched Butler's production in 2013.
Billy exceeded the WAR of Prince Fielder and Victor Martinez for 2013, so as usual, your argument holds little to no factual merit (you are a professional at this by now).
Now, 8.5 million is a perfectly reasonable amount to pay Butler at his level of production, but 12.5 million is a different story.