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  1. homer
    No kidding Regardless of tax rates and cost of living amounts in whatever city, Harper will make almost 400 million for his career. Let the number sink in. 400 million dollars. That's incredible wealth. He could live very comfortably just on interest of that wealth if done smartly. I get your point but after taxes and after paying his agent (is it 3% or 6%?) it's more like $155 million or thereabouts. Still, your point remains. He could invest not smartly and still live off interest.
  2. homer
    So you've seen Top Gun and Anchorman.
  3. homer
    City of Philadephia has a wage tax. 3.88%
  4. homer
    It is certainly the majority of it but do you think Harper is buying a cheap house? Yea, but its an investment not a cost. More than likely he would make MORE money in San Diego selling his house vs Philly. Not to mention he may not even want a house in Philly. All that said, its a non-issue anyhow since its a small fraction of his salary. What IS a real factor is state income tax. My guess is PA taxes are high, but CA even higher. One site I saw had it about 1.5% more in CA.
  5. homer
    It is certainly the majority of it but do you think Harper is buying a cheap house? No, but he also has to live in Philly and not San Diego.
  6. homer
    San Diego has a 50% higher cost of living than Philly? I am guessing that is entirely driven by housing costs.
  7. homer
    yeah we were talking about that in the Machado thread I think. He's making $34 million a year right now. I doubt he takes a yearly pay cut.
  8. homer
    Compare Robinson Cano's deal to this one. Cano got $24 million a year for 10 years - deal signed in 2013 and he was 31. Harper will get $27.5 million per year for 13 years and he is 26. With inflation, Cano would be averaging around $26.5 million per year if he signed that deal today.
  9. homer
    That was like the Brewers offers to Sabathia and Fielder. They knew they would never come close but had to do something.
  10. homer
    Yeah for sure. Question is how high do you take them? Vlad is going top 50 in most leagues. Kinda crazy when he might not play for a month but if you want him as a keeper then it makes sense. Soto might be even more valuable because he's already had a MLB 900+ OPS season at age 19. That's crazy.
  11. homer
    I think BABIP alone doesn't tell the whole story anymore particularly with all the shifting going on. Do the Cards shift a ton?
  12. homer
    Same. If it was Odell Beckham maybe different story but they have too many holes to fill.
  13. homer
    Right, but when Scherzer retires, their next best option will take his place. Could be a guy in their system, or a free agent. The league will not fold because one player retires or leaves. The point is that Scherzer is a generational talent whose performance cannot simply be replaced by some random pitcher. The Nationals will lose more games when he retires and as such less people will show up to watch them. A league filled with random dudes is not going to be as good, exciting, fun as a league with guys like Scherzer, Betts, Yelich, Sale, etc. etc.
  14. homer
    There is literally no way people are going to fill stadiums to watch AAAA players play. When an owner sells a team, another rich person steps in and buys it. When Max Scherzer retires, he's not getting replaced by some schmo in Scranton.
  15. homer
    Don't forget the costs of ownership is not simply player salaries. The front office, analytics departments, Murphy Money, first class tickets for players, team charters, top hotel rooms, locker room attendants, in-game entertainment, etc. People on here are acting like: (Brewers Revenues) - (Players salaries) = profit This is simply not true. I think most people realize there are other costs both fixed and variable that determine the amount of profit. Again, we have no idea what those numbers are but people have surmised that even the worst franchises in the league are making money.
  16. homer
    Also there was an Athletic article about his mechanics. Behind pay wall.
  17. homer
    There was a video interview about it: https://www.jsonline.com/videos/sports/mlb/brewers/2019/02/25/spring-training-brewers-pitcher-chase-anderson-pitching/2977960002/
  18. homer
    They probably told him if he feels anything weird or out of the ordinary no matter how small to let them know. Guessing this is just them being overly cautious.
  19. homer
    I really wish the teams had to open their books up to the public.
  20. homer
    1994 sucked. You don't want a full year strike.
  21. homer
    I think it was they had only scored 140+ like 5 times in the last 30 years and they've done it 4 times already this year.
  22. homer
    It's just kinda weird to me that people are against employees taking part in the business doing well. We seem to be just fine with owners/CEO's making a ton of money but really don't feel employees should share in that. Scale probably matters for baseball since the players make plenty of money relative to most folks. But this attitude seems to carry over to every industry. It's really odd to me.
  23. homer
    Why? In what other area of life other than sports do we expect the employees pay to go up every time revenue goes up? And I’m sure these players who demand more pay if profit goes up will gladly take lower salaries if the owner loses money right? A lot of employee bonuses are based on company performance. Not to mention if you work for a company with an employee stock purchase plan, you make more money if the stock goes up which it does when the company does well. This is in addition to any performance bonuses an employee has (i.e. meeting sales quota).
  24. homer
    Ummmm, and without owners, those that pay the players millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars, MLB wouldn't exist. The owners exist because people want to pay money to see the players. No one pays money to see Mark A sit in his box seats.
  25. homer
    The owners being rich won't have much to do with it. These guys don't like losing money at all.
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