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  1. snyttri
    "Boras set up the scouting-director thing that way so that he would then easily be able to yell "collusion!" and have that player also declared a free agent. sneaky." Anything that increases the number of free agents is good for the business of player agents and makes it more difficult to reign in the budgets of the big spending teams. But since player salaries have decreased from a high of 67% of revenues to 51% in recent years IIRC it would not be surprising if MLB lost yet another collusion action in the future.
  2. snyttri
    Sorry for the confusion. From the article it appears that the low revenue teams are not as "forced" to trade stars as they portray themselves to be because they have a lot of revenue before ticket sales. The Marlins were made an example of when they publicly agreed to raise payroll in January but the payroll and revenue sharing situation is similar for several teams including the Rays.
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    Although they have low attendance the Florida franchises are among the most profitable teams in baseball because the owners don't seem to spend the money they start the season with before any tickets are sold. Their dumping of star players is sometimes for reasons of strategy or greed (depending on how you look at it) rather than because they are forced to. Florida Marlins Rev-Sharing - Payroll Year Rev-Sharing EOY Payroll Diff 02 $20,946,573 $40,822,536 $19,875,963 03 $21,030,000 $63,281,152 $42,251,152 05 $31,000,000 $56,273,212 $25,273,212 http://bizofbaseball.com/...editorials&Itemid=39 "...In response to our concerns that revenue sharing proceeds have not been used as required, the Marlins have assured the Union and the Commissioner’s Office that they plan to use such proceeds to increase player payroll annually as they move toward the opening of their new ballpark. Today’s agreement, which covers the period 2010 through 2012, calls for ongoing communication among the Marlins, the Commissioner’s Office and the Union as the Marlins proceed with that plan.”
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    Ken Williams is pretty much wholly responsible for the 2005 team that lead wire to wire and lost only one game in the post-season and the Lee for Podsednik and Vizcaino deal was a key part of the Sox success. The Sox were limited to a medium size 75M budget when they won the Series. Trading Lee's 8M salary for two very useful minimally paid players helped Williams sign several bargain free agents that off season including Dye for 4M, Pierzynski for 2.25M, Iguchi for 2.3M, El Duque for 3.5M and Hermanson (34 saves) for 2M. Williams seems to be ranked where he usually is. Iguchi was essentially donated by the White Sox to the Phillies because the Phillies got nothing from the Garcia for Floyd trade. McCarthy for Danks and Borchard for Thornton were one-sided. Williams traded for Garcia, Contreras and Vazquez. Williams has been able to acquire starting pitching without a highly regarded farm system. Rios is a 29 year old former All-Star. I think the jury is out. http://content.usatoday.c...spx?team=4&year=2005
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    "The Yankees went 2 extra years and tacked on an extra $60 million. They were irresponsible, disrespectful to the game, and threw their cash around like only they usually can. There was nothing the Brewers could do about that. But to talk like the offer the Brewers made to Sabathia was some token gesture is kind of disingenuous, in my opinion." It seems like it was a very solid business and baseball decision for the Yankees. They cruised to the World Series title while cutting payroll from the previous season. Their new stadium should help them continue to handle expensive long-term contracts. It would be irresponsible for the Yankees to operate under any team's budget but their own. I think given the markets at the time the CC offer belongs with the Carlos Lee offer in the wishful thinking category.
  6. snyttri
    This August 2007 article on MLBs then new agreement with Ebay unit Stubhub disusses how much MLBs attitude about on-line scalping has changed. "... Last season, the New York Yankees revoked season tickets of fans who used StubHub, saying it violated the contract that the ticket holders had with the team. The Yankees even went so far as to ask its flagship radio station, WCBS, to turn down ads from StubHub, and security guards at Yankee Stadium regularly questioned fans arriving with StubHub envelopes." http://www.nytimes.com/20.../business/02tickets.html
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    The Brewers get a cut from ticket resellers on Stubhub and Ebay so on-site scalpers are scalping competition.
  8. snyttri
    The article says Hardy had depression some time ago so he was probably diagnosed by a doctor at the time. The problems Hardy describes may be symptoms (staying in for six months, thinking of 2 for 4 as a bad day and feeling like the day is going 100 miles an hour). Based on medical analysis teams may have reduced Hardy's value to that of a good prospect in part because the illness showed signs of recurring last season. http://en.wikipedia.org/w...ajor_depressive_disorder
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    "Yes, but if you look at the teams that by and large make and WIN the World Series, it's been almost exclusively the big market teams in the last ten years. For every freak Marlins championship, there's 4-5 Yankees/Boston/LA/Chicago winners." The White Sox and Angels were mid-level salary teams as the Brewers are now when they won the Series. http://www.bizofbaseball....nalPayrollbyYear_MLB.pdf The financially weakest teams in baseball that do not even bother to spend the revenue sharing money that is doled out to them, the Rays and Marlins, can win. Of the other poorest teams the A's often do well but the Pirates and Royals just don't seem to be well managed. Some of the poor teams have owners or investors with pockets as deep as the Yankees but they don't seem to use their resources to get the best management available. I would like to see the Yankees taxed more severely and the owners share their revenues better. But the Yankees dominated the most when baseball was at its most popular so the Yankee problem is not new or fatal. Hopefully an international draft and other changes will help offset the increasing disparity that has resulted from increasing overall revenues going mostly to the richer teams. Some cities will always have an advantage over others because they are considered better places to live.
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    It doesn't sound to me like Hardy is fabricating his problems and I hope and suspect he'll bounce back this year. Hardy and the Twins may benefit from the death of Carl Pohlad as well as the new stadium. Pohlad was the richest and one of the cheapest owners in baseball. His sons didn't start out by foreclosing on farms in the Great Depression and might spend some of the money to put them over the top.
  11. snyttri
    According to this FanGraphs article there seems to be no correlation for the reasons Funketown mentioned. "Any fears of a powerless second half because of the derby are extinguished when you examine the last three seasons of participants. Taking all 24 of their first and second half homerun and plate appearances, I found that the difference is marginal, and can probably be attributed to regression more so than anything derby related." http://www.fangraphs.com/...d-its-carry-over-effect/
  12. snyttri
    Henry Aaron was a frequent contestant on the "Home Run Derby" TV series and he stayed pretty healthy and consistent.
  13. snyttri
    The University of Illinois isn't exactly Ivy League quality either and the deadball era player may have mistaken helpful reminders that the Giants were making mistakes as hostility directed at him. If you aren't really in agreement that booing your own team is a bad idea you wouldn't think there is any sense of superiority to be gained by looking down on it.
  14. snyttri
    It's pathetic that when booing is discussed it's assumed the booing is directed at the home team. The Brewers might win games by stealing the Squad 6 concept from Andrew Bogut and compensating fans to create more of a home field advantage. If you really need proof that booing has a detrimental effect there is a 1983 University of Illinois study titled "Spectator Booing and the Home Field Advantage". http://www.jstor.org/pss/3033796 In "The Glory of Their Times" a book consisting of mostly deadball era players recounting their experiences one player attributed losing the World Series to New York Giants fans intimidating his team.
  15. snyttri
    MLB was profitable even when the owners said it wasn't.
  16. snyttri
    http://www.bizofbaseball....editorials&Itemid=39 Are Some MLB Teams Profiting While Living on Welfare? Written by Maury Brown Thursday, 03 December 2009 Based on data from Forbes from 2002 to the most recent figures released in 2009, clubs that receive the most in revenue-sharing have seen profits in most, if not all years: Forbes Valuations (By Operating Income, in Millions)Club20092008200720062005200420032002TOTALRays29.429.720.220.327.27.51.4-6.1129.6Pirates15.917.625.321.912.2-0.3-1.69.5100.5A's26.217.614.5165.911.21.46.899.6Marlins43.735.643.3-11.93-11.6-141.489.5Royals97.48.420.836.6-11.22.246.2
  17. snyttri
    Based on his importance to baseball history and Milwaukee baseball Bud belongs with Aaron and Yount. I think Warren Spahn deserves a statue on that basis as well. I think he will be known first for how long he served as commissioner, including a time of great prosperity, and second as the commissioner of the steroid era. Bud had the authority to act on PEDs whenever he wanted. It was his choice to look the other way. In '91 Commissioner Vincent distributed a memorandum to the team owners that stressed that baseball's drug policy prohibited “all illegal drugs and controlled substances, including steroids or prescription drugs for which the individual...does not have a prescription.” Bud will also be remembered as the commissioner who was appointed to end the string of independent commissioners and make the job part of ownership. It doesn't seem that anyone besides Bud could have brought baseball to Milwaukee and assure that it would stay here. It's been an honor to have MLB operated in part from Milwaukee.
  18. snyttri
    I think the third part of the code is a 4 from a photo of Yount and the fourth part is a 0 from a photo of CC. I did not get the first two.
  19. snyttri
    "But McGwire used his PEDs before they were specifically banned. That's the classy way." Baseball has specifically identified steroids since '91 when Commissioner Vincent distributed a memorandum to all 26 team owners, stressing that baseball’s drug policy expressly prohibited the use of “all illegal drugs and controlled substances, including steroids or prescription drugs for which the individual...does not have a prescription.” They were specifically banned in McGwire's hay day. I think steroid users should eventually get in the Hall, though, when it becomes clear how widely steroids were used in the steroid era.
  20. snyttri
    ?They seemed to think there was something wrong with the way we played baseball, with speed and defense and line-drive hitters. They called it "Whitey-ball" and said it couldn't last.? -Whitey Herzog It didn't last, because they got rid of most of the artificial surfaces.
  21. snyttri
    I thought this was an interesting view of MLB's role in PED use. ?Selig, however, also permitted Mitchell to "expand the investigation and to follow the evidence wherever it may lead," if he felt it necessary to do so. Mitchell took Selig's opening and ran with it, producing a report that focused on MLB's historical indifference to the pervasiveness of illegal performance enhancing drugs in its locker rooms, and one which went well beyond Selig's 2002 start date, generating a treatise that, in the end, most likely gave Selig and MLB much more than they had bargained for. In its pages, the Mitchell Report destroyed the myth that Selig and MLB had perpetrated for years: the myth that MLB's signing of the 2002 collective bargaining agreement along with the Major League Baseball Players Association (the "Players Association") somehow rendered 2002 a starting point in the discussion of illegal drug use within the game. By destroying that myth, the Mitchell Report invariably shifted the focus of the blame for baseball's steroid crisis from "rogue" players such as Barry Bonds, Miguel Tejada and the others mentioned within the Report, to MLB itself.?
  22. snyttri
    ?Like I said, some people just do anything to find fault with Melvin -- nevermind that he's widely regarded as one of the best GMs in the game.? Is there a ranking of GMs that has him puts Melvin among the best?
  23. snyttri
    ?I still contend that the only reason that the option was picked up last year is that Melvin thought he had a deal in place with the Yankees for Cabrera. The Yankees left him holding the bag though when they wanted to force Igawa in the deal as well. ? It seemed like that was a real trade negotiation but Melvin had to be satisfied with the contract too because he knew that if the trade fell through the market for high salary players would be small that off season.
  24. snyttri
    ?4) Jackson/Overbay - no one other than DM knows what was available or offered. We cannot speculate here based on rumors or what-ifs. Everyone knew we wanted to trade Overbay so we cannot have expected much.? According to Adam McCalvy on the Brewers website the Brewers chose chose Bush over Arroyo: "Melvin chose to trade for Bush over a deal with the Boston Red Sox that would have netted either Bronson Arroyo or Matt Clement. The Brewers preferred Bush over Arroyo, and Clement's large salary was a turnoff."(04/08/06)
  25. snyttri
    It was noted that the strike ended because the owners violated labor laws which they have done on a regular basis. If there will ever be a salary cap in the distant future I think the owners will have to have developed some trust with the players. Although Bud had a reputation as a colluder in the old days there has been a period of labor peace recently and he deserves some credit for that. I think Bud deserves blame for being either willfully ignorant or inactive against PEDs until late in the game. He says he saw greenies in the Milwaukee Braves clubhouse as a child but became aware of PEDs as commissioner IIRC through the media. I think the commissioner has better access to information about widespread practices in baseball than that. IIRC a former FBI agent has stated he notified MLB about PED activity early on. The commissioner has a bully pulpit and he could have exerted public pressure for testing that labor would have had difficulty responding to. Labor didn't have anything to say about the testing implemented in response to congressional action. The pro-narcotics lobby exists but it is pretty marginalized. Although Bud seems like a great down to earth guy who loves baseball and was friendly to me when I met him at a convenience store I don't think he is above criticism.
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