But the decision on whether or not to extend them will send a strong message of the team's direction and how it intends to approach the potential of hitting the expensive luxury tax.
In fact, a consistent approach to hitting, regardless of the situation, is often cited by coaches, teammates and opponents as a key to Jeter's success.
It's also an approach that Harry Briggs, a principal at Balderton Capital, tells me is raising the level of concern among VCs who must watch as startups throw investment dollars at user acquisition approaches in hopes of hitting it big.
Despite his youth, Freeman takes a more traditional approach to hitting than most of his more senior teammates: specifically, he is not allergic to base hits.
Tony La Russa, who managed McGwire in Oakland and St . Louis said last week that two injury-filled seasons, in 1993 and 1994, caused McGwire to reconsider his original approach to hitting, which consisted of seeing the ball and swinging at it.
On the adrenalin rush he felt of hitting his approach shot at the 16th to set up that eagle, he said: "It's like you're drinking 500 cups of coffee at once".
The affable hitting coach Kevin Long offered a passionate defense of Jeter late Sunday after two news media outlets reported that Jeter had abandoned his approach, reverting to his previous style of hitting with a stride: "It's so far from the truth that I think it's wrong to write".
To use Dr Mass's analogy, this is the buckshot approach to forecasting, where the chances of hitting the target are much higher.Bob Gordon of Meteorlogix, however, argues that while this academic perspective is correct, his business customers want to base their decisions on precise predictions about whether a particular weather condition will occur or not.
The latter represents the major novelty and added value of our approach to hit identification campaigns.
The development of a fragment approach to hit discovery is, in many ways, highly amenable to the academic drug discovery setting, and such groups can apply this technique to the difficult, high-risk target types that should be characteristic of the sector.
