Roderick

How much is an all-star game appearance worth in arby hearings? Anything?

How much is an all-star game appearance worth in arby hearings? Anything?

I agree he isn't worth that much and I know he isn't Ryan Howard, but that would definitely be a comparable they use. It is one year later and baseball inflation was probably 10% last year. How do the Brewers protect themselves from the Howard verdict? How low do you dare go and feel you will still win? If the Brewers go $7M and Fielder goes $9M who is going to win?

I agree he isn't worth that much and I know he isn't Ryan Howard, but that would definitely be a comparable they use. It is one year later and baseball inflation was probably 10% last year. How do the Brewers protect themselves from the Howard verdict? How low do you dare go and feel you will still win? If the Brewers go $7M and Fielder goes $9M who is going to win?

I agree he isn't worth that much and I know he isn't Ryan Howard, but that would definitely be a comparable they use. It is one year later and baseball inflation was probably 10% last year. How do the Brewers protect themselves from the Howard verdict? How low do you dare go and feel you will still win? If the Brewers go $7M and Fielder goes $9M who is going to win?

I agree he isn't worth that much and I know he isn't Ryan Howard, but that would definitely be a comparable they use. It is one year later and baseball inflation was probably 10% last year. How do the Brewers protect themselves from the Howard verdict? How low do you dare go and feel you will still win? If the Brewers go $7M and Fielder goes $9M who is going to win?

I agree he isn't worth that much and I know he isn't Ryan Howard, but that would definitely be a comparable they use. It is one year later and baseball inflation was probably 10% last year. How do the Brewers protect themselves from the Howard verdict? How low do you dare go and feel you will still win? If the Brewers go $7M and Fielder goes $9M who is going to win?

Assuming it goes all the way to arbitration. I'm not sure how the players in the second year of arbitration work off from their prior year's base salary or if the current economy is any factor or if they are just use prior year salary data and tacking on inflation. So any help is appreciated. My guesstimates: Bush - $3.25M McClung - $1.5M Fielder - $8.5M Weeks - $2.50M Hart - $4.65M

Assuming it goes all the way to arbitration. I'm not sure how the players in the second year of arbitration work off from their prior year's base salary or if the current economy is any factor or if they are just use prior year salary data and tacking on inflation. So any help is appreciated. My guesstimates: Bush - $3.25M McClung - $1.5M Fielder - $8.5M Weeks - $2.50M Hart - $4.65M

Assuming it goes all the way to arbitration. I'm not sure how the players in the second year of arbitration work off from their prior year's base salary or if the current economy is any factor or if they are just use prior year salary data and tacking on inflation. So any help is appreciated. My guesstimates: Bush - $3.25M McClung - $1.5M Fielder - $8.5M Weeks - $2.50M Hart - $4.65M

Assuming it goes all the way to arbitration. I'm not sure how the players in the second year of arbitration work off from their prior year's base salary or if the current economy is any factor or if they are just use prior year salary data and tacking on inflation. So any help is appreciated. My guesstimates: Bush - $3.25M McClung - $1.5M Fielder - $8.5M Weeks - $2.50M Hart - $4.65M

Assuming it goes all the way to arbitration. I'm not sure how the players in the second year of arbitration work off from their prior year's base salary or if the current economy is any factor or if they are just use prior year salary data and tacking on inflation. So any help is appreciated. My guesstimates: Bush - $3.25M McClung - $1.5M Fielder - $8.5M Weeks - $2.50M Hart - $4.65M

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/37246944.html From Peavey's link: At the Web site of Sportscasters Talent Agency of America, a trade organization, the Brewers posted a notice asking for applications for a "potential opening for their No. 2 radio play-by-play position." The notice said all applications must be in Brewers offices by 10 a.m. Friday. I assume from the short turnaround deadline on the applications, that the Brewers already know who they are going to hire.

To be the devil's advocate - if the injury that bridged the 05-06 season happened in April of 2005, that looks even better? I'm not so sure. A case could be made that Sheets' games started stat for his career is inflated because a more proportionate share of his lost injury time included offseason then the usual pitcher maladies. That said, sign him to a two year deal with some games-started incentive for 2009 that would give them some protection regarding his latest injury.

Yes, but you did have to wait until their teams were out of the pennant chase. I don't think you can assume you can make anything like a fair trade if we lose a starter before June. We would have to pay a steep price. That is why I assume Melvin will make some low-impact trades to bolster the AAA pitching with some guy(s) that should they have to be called up would put together something close to replacement level pitching for a month or two.

Slot the salaries in the baseball draft so the KC Royals are not skipping a player because they know they will not be able to sign them. I would say share the local media revenue, but a team that owns the media would just adjust the contract to have the media outlet make more money and pay the team less. It would take a host of accountants and lawyers to filter through that arrangement. I would be tempting to allow the trading of draft picks. That would allow teams to make 'runs' where they built up quite a few high picks over just a couple of years. However, you would get an owner (GM) like the old Cleveland Cavaliers owner, Ted Stepien, who was soooo bad that the NBA had to adjust the rules on trading away draft picks. If the players ever accepted a salary cap, I'm sure it would be designed with a very high floor. One of the reasons the NFL was able to make the salary cap work, it forced the Cincinnati Bengals to actually spend a minimum amount of money annually. Making a few MLB teams at the bottom pay more to players would make up for the lost earnings from the Yankees being restricted on what they spend on player salaries. Yes, that may force a young (cheap) team to add an expensive veteran they don't really need to get to that floor, but that would be the cost to get a cap, imo. The biggest thing to me is keeping the internet 100% shared and trying to expand that definition. So that in 15 years when the internet is the medium for even local baseball viewing, and the YES network is on the internet the Brewers will be participating in the Yankees media dollars.

I agree that you can't use the logic that cheaper free agent pitcher X plus two comp picks is > than Sheets. Because we will get comp picks after his next contract is up (barring a huge loss of playing time and/or performance due to injury). And assuming any contract the Brewers sign Sheets to will be a short contract, it isn't like they are too far in the horizon.

Don't they get to "net" the number of type As that they lost versus what they signed? If so, didn't the Yankees have more type As that would allow them to sign more than 3 type As (or were all their free agents type Bs)? From the Elias thread, it would appear that the Yankees had four type A free agents: Abreu, Pettite, Mussina, and Marte.

The Yankees could afford CC and Tex and Sheets and still run a profit (excluding any new stadium financing costs that would be amortized). They had a lot of expiring contracts and have a ton of local media revenue.

Yost either loved Kendell or hated him, because he played him every single game. I would say that would tax your hitting quite a bit.

True an opt-out favors the player. Supposedly the team's advantage is to be able to sign him to a slightly below market value contract or in this case, less than what the Yankees are offering or a west coast team may eventually offer.

For how often I see House on TV, I'm sure MA could ask his brother, Paul, for a little of that producer money if it comes down to it. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

I agree with Invader. Sheets taking a one year arby contract, would not preclude MA from ponying up the long-term bucks for CC. Obviously I don't see that scenario happening, but if it did I do think that would mean one more year of "go for it" and Cameron would be retained (unless another solid CF was traded for).

Put me in the camp that wouldn't offer arby to Gagne. The risk of paying him more than you think he is worth because of an arbitrator's ruling is more than the potential pick is going to be worth. I don't get into the stats behind the stats and I know ERA is far from perfect for bullpen pitching, but it seems to me if Gagne improves he is a 4.25 ERA guy out of the pen. You could pitch Shouse to quite a few right handers and he would still have a much better ERA than that. Shouse doesn't have any arm problems and we are talking only a one-year contract, so why does everyone think Shouse isn't worth $3M, but Gagne is worth $5M? For the record, I wouldn't probably go over $3M for either of them. Once you reach that price, I would try to trade/sign someone solid and fill the bullpen with minimum contracts so the budget isn't busted. Side question - since there is a statistical value for everything, has anyone attempted to place a dollar value on how much a sandwich pick is worth? Would you risk paying Gagne $2-3M more than what he is worth for a pick?

Todd Jones article. Taxes. Some state and local governments believe that if we earn money in their jurisdictions, we should pay taxes there, too. So we pay something in almost every city in which we play. Six games at Fenway Park a season means paying state tax in Massachusetts and city tax to Boston. Of course, we're also taxed by the home cities in which we play as well as the places where we live in the offseason. We like road games in Texas and Florida because there's no state income tax in those places. http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=209444http://www.sportingnews.c...rn/viewtopic.php?t=209444