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  1. kramnoj
    Thank you for the link. I hadn't read that Attanasio played Strat and read Bill James Abstracts. I don't recall reading that the Brewers had come close to tripling revenue from the new deal. Had heard it was better, but not the significance of it. Would be awesome if this meant a move to a payroll of $100M in a few years, but I would guess that an increase in revenue will mean a decrease of some kind in revenue sharing coming in.
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    You didn't have to say "come on people", you should have said "come on Patrick" since apparently it's just me that's being insensitive and politically incorrect. You did call it an act. Whether you meant to or not, that reveals more about your lack of tolerance than anything else you choose to write. And intolerance doesn't have anything to do with being old school. It's just judgmental.
  3. kramnoj
    A manager's job boils down to just a couple of things, and one of them is to actually manage the players, and that isn't restricted to the field. Francona said that he wasn't as effective with some guys this year as he had been in the past. As is being discussed on another site, most managers have expiration dates with a team, and an epic collapse is good enough reason to make a change. Not just missing the playoffs (they missed the playoffs last year too), but missing it in such spectacular fashion. Francona can clearly be an effective manager in the right situation (my first knowledge of him was when he was managing Michael Jordan down in the minors, and Jordan raved about him), but he hasn't won a playoff game in the last 3 years. That's not the kind of return one expects when spending the resources the Red Sox are.
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    no they don't keep all the money from merchandise it sells in a team store. They have to pay the companies that supply the merchandise and the clerks that work in the stores. I guess I could have included the word profits, but figured it would assumed in the context of the last part of the sentence when compared to merchandise sold outside the stadium.
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    I've heard that teams get to keep most, if not all of the money from merchandise it sells in it's team store, but stuff at other locations is split between all clubs.
  6. kramnoj
    Here is a good breakdown of how playoff revenue is split: http://www.boston.com/spo...fs_not_ticket_to_riches/ In the best-of-five divisional series, 60 percent of the ticket revenue from the first three games goes to the players from both teams, who decide how to divide it among themselves and some other team employees. Another 1.6 percent is collected for the umpires. That leaves 38.4 percent of the gate revenue to be split evenly between the teams. That figure will drop the closer the Sox get to the World Series; in the American League Championship Series and World Series, players get 60 percent of ticket sales from the first four games. .... The commissioner's office also gets a 15 percent cut of ticket sales from the World Series. ... Players for the 2006 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals split more than $20 million, with 48 players and team employees getting full shares of $362,173 and 23 others getting undisclosed "partial shares." The American League champion Detroit Tigers divided a pool of $13.3 million among 39 people who got $291,667 each. Fifteen others got lesser amounts. By comparison, the Cardinals and Tigers took in just shy of $6.8 million each from the entire playoffs.
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    The team financials that were leaked from other teams is probably going to give us the best information. For example, we can look at the Angels information as seen here http://ca.deadspin.com/56...cial-documents/gallery/1 (Please note, the documents themselves are fine, but the site is Deadspin, so other posted stories aren't family friendly.) The 2009 Angels had $12M revenue just from the playoffs. That team had Net Income for 2009 of $10.7M. They certainly aren't an exact match, but I thought they might be the closest comparison to this years Brewers.
  8. kramnoj
    There's no reason that the budget for SS is going to be limited to $4M. Barmes should be a free agent and I think could be signed to a reasonable deal.
  9. kramnoj
    If Casey was on the White Sox, he would be ahead of 3 position players per OPS+ (barely)!
  10. kramnoj
    20th out of 20th is one way of saying it. Another way of describing where he stands is that he is .001 away from being tied for 17th, which would mean that just over half of all teams have a better hitter at his position.
  11. kramnoj
    Guillen has been given the option to not manage the White Sox in 2012, but the White Sox control his rights. If another team, the Marlins want him to manage in 2012, they need to give up something. The White Sox wouldn't gain anything from just firing Guillen, as they would still be obligated to pay him.
  12. kramnoj
    UZR and Total Zone both say Hart has been a positive defensively this year. That doesn't outweigh his deficiencies in the past, but he's not nearly as terrible as some believe. This was his best year measured by OPS+. His best offensive year was 2007 when he added value on the bases. He's pretty much given the Brewers value this year to cover his salary for the next two years.
  13. kramnoj
    I don't think something can be labeled a trend if 3 of the 5 points haven't actually happened and the two things that have happened have no relevance to each other.
  14. kramnoj
    What's interesting to me is that the commercials REALLY make a big deal out of Scott Hatteberg, and for the 4 years he was an Athletic, he was maybe cumulatively a league average player at best, while playing first base. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did read one version of the screenplay that had been released when it looked like the project had died. Hatteberg pretty much personifies the story being told. The A's were a 102 Win team that was losing Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon and Isringhausen, their closer. In Hatteberg, they find a catcher who had never played 1B as a professional who has a nice OBP. There is a scene where is wife plays catch/hits ground balls in the offseason because he has to learn to play the position (in the script). And it's with projects like Hatteberg (as well as the amazing pitching staff) that the A's actually win 103 games the next season.
  15. kramnoj
    Why should a guy be penalized if he is blocked and forced to play corner outfield because the team has an established CF? If you have a CF quality defender playing in a corner, he is going to have more range, and won't be penalized, because he is making more plays than the peers at his position. Going further, shortstop is more difficult to play than center, but is it really that much more difficult than third? Pujols started off his career at 3B, imagine how much better his offensive numbers would have compared against shortstops. I think there's a certain level of defense that teams will tolerate. It might have been worth it for the Brewers to try Gamel at SS in the minors this year, so he could have replaced Yuni at some point. He may be a -25 or -30 defender, but if managed to put up an .800 OPS, it would have been a decent tradeoff, maybe even a good one. But teams don't seem to try to do that. Look at catchers. Catchers offense is just terrible for the most part. If you were Brendan Katin and you put up a .845 OPS in the minors over your career, wouldn't it be worth a try to learn how to play catcher in the offseason? But catcher defense is really, really important, so teams don't try to do stuff like that.
  16. kramnoj
    Way to go, Brewers! Thank you for a heckuva year! Let's hope for HFA and a WS win!
  17. kramnoj
    Greinke has been great, but it's important to remember the difference in offensive levels between 2008 and this year. In 2008, CC's ERA+ was 255. I don't know how to calculate ERA+, but Greinke's ERA since the ASB is close to what Kershaw is for the season, and his ERA+ is 161. I'm guessing Zach's would be a bit better with park factor adjusted, but still not all that close to what CC did.
  18. kramnoj
    To me this team looks dead and doesn't care if they win or lose. I don't know how someone can look at Braun's walk off HR and think this team doesn't care if it wins.
  19. kramnoj
    kramnoj, you say all the negative reports are speculation. However all your positive opinions are speculation. I was addressing homer, who mentioned "well-documented" and tried to defend himself by saying he was clearly right in his statement that Lawrie had been traded away because the Brewers "couldn't stand him". I don't see any value in such baseless hyperbole. Frankly, its exaggeration to the point of just being made up.
  20. kramnoj
    Circumstantial evidence does not equal well documented evidence. And even if Lawrie's attitude had some part in him being traded, it doesn't mean he was a malcontent, and it doesn't mean the Brewers couldn't stand him.
  21. kramnoj
    And X said my statement was devoid of all fact which it clearly was not. How is that clear? How many well-documented sources do you have that clearly state that the Brewers couldn't stand Lawrie? There is only speculation. But clearly the Brewers don't trade someone away just because of attitude issues. Prince has got into altercations and he hasn't been traded. Melvin wasn't happy when Braun said stuff about improving the starting pitching and he was extended.
  22. kramnoj
    This may be one of the things that doesn't get mentioned because everybody knows it, but I just saw a piece that said that Gamel's last option was used this year. If for whatever reason he isn't on the major league roster next Opening Day, he's going to have to be traded or DFAed, and I don't see him slipping through. And if he's traded, I'm going to guess the number of teams that would take him without being able to option him is a somewhat small number, which could hurt his trade value.
  23. kramnoj
    Absolutely not. Really? Nobody is asking him to kiss up to his boss, but you felt the need to introduce that phrase here. It certainly seems like you think showing up for work on time and following coaching advice, you know, being a decent employee, is kissing up to the boss. If you don't, why even bring that up? If it comes down to having somebody on the team who... 1) Is somewhat immature, but produces Gamel's Major League Equivalencies or 2) Is very mature, but produces Casey McGehee or Mark Kotsay type numbers ...I'll take option #1 every time. I don't think it's a given that Gamel would outperform Casey at 3B given how bad Mat has been defensively. And Gamel's stats as a hitter when he isn't playing the field don't give me confidence that he would perform well in the Kotsay role.
  24. kramnoj
    Or maybe he just isn't a good 3rd baseman, like Braun isn't. Maybe. But Money specifically talked about how he tried to help Gamel with his throwing motion and Gamel didn't act on the coaching. Gamel needs to get a shot at the big league level. He's done more than enough to prove himself in the minors. This is looking like politics, pure and simple He was given a shot at being a DH this year. It is of course a small sample, but in his major league career he has not performed well in the PH and DH roles. Those were the only opportunities that he was going to get for the rest of the year so it wouldn't make much sense to call him up if he wasn't going to be given a chance to contribute. It has nothing to do with politics. If that was the case, Gamel wouldn't have been called up to be a DH this year. I think people who are assuming malice are probably projecting their own experience onto Gamel here.
  25. kramnoj
    Part of being mature is working with people that have different styles and being able to adapt. As far as Gamel doing everything he has been asked to do, that isn't supported by the number of errors he has had at 3B. He has been given advice on how to adjust and failed to make significant improvement, either through his own work or by listening to his coaches. Also, being late enough times that Gamel's teammates decided to move his locker outside isn't evidence of a strong work ethic or a sign of maturity.
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