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The DH option is huge here. David Ortiz raked until the end of his career. Ortiz was pretty much, exclusively a DH. The Fielders, (Cecil and Prince) were toast by their very early 30s. The Fielders fielded quite a bit, especially the fielding Prince, who was a NLer when his league had no DH. Coincidence? Or did the DH greatly impact these different outcomes? Nobody knows what Alonso's future is. Predicting his future is a guessing game and a luckfest, to a great extent. Like Edgy said in the other thread, there are risks, but also benefits to every baseball contract. Jacob deGrom's new contract also carries risks. And I doubt that deGrom -- a pitcher -- is insurable at this point of his career and with his injury history. This all started when you know who dismissed out of hand extending Alonso without even considering the tremendous upside in this terrible post: Why? To throw millions of dollars around needlessly and screw themselves if he comes down with a career-ending injury in the next two years? It's an uninformed post. The risk of injury in the next two years to a non-pitcher in his 20s is insurable. Procuring insurance in a situation like that one is standard operating procedure in MLB. Throw in Cohen's enormous wealth, and the risk practically disappears. Also, why limit the injury risk to the next two years? An injury can happen at any time. The poster then changed his post 180 degrees, but obviously, only after reading and considering my responses, which he pretended to ignore. Yeah right. He's' probably scrutinizing my posts with a microscope and a fine-toothed comb.

I saw some games there in April of 2015, too, against the Braves. I've been to Marlins Stadium many times, but not since Jeter became GM and they implemented a lot of re-designs to the stadium and the Marlins unis. All of the games I saw there were night games. I would've liked to see at least one day game there because the back wall of the stadium behind the outfield is made of glass and during the day, you could see downtown Miami through the glass, with its classic Miami look -- bright white skyscrapers against a beautiful blue sky. But I never experienced that view in the darkness of the night. I thought it was a cool stadium, interesting is the better word, with its pop art flourishes all over, but I liked the stadium more in pictures than in person. In person, with the closed roof, the stadium had a very claustrophobic feel to it. Also, the stadium food, I thought, was nothing special and by today's higher standards for stadium food, especially Citi Field, kind of subpar. Their attendance is weak, and for Mets game, there are, without a doubt, more Mets fans present than Marlins fans. More Mets gear, too.