Posted on 12/08/2011 7:45:40 AM PST by jpl
DALLAS -- Albert Pujols has agreed to a 10-year, $250 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels, sources told ESPN The Magazine's Buster Olney on Thursday.
The deal includes a full no-trade clause, which Pujols had been seeking and may have been a sticking point in his negotiations with the Miami Marlins.
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Let’s see. Who made the playoffs this past season?
The Yankees, the Detroit Tigers, the Texas Rangers, and the Tampa Bay Rays. The Phillies, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the St. Louis Cardinals. Some big-market teams in there, but some small and medium markets too. Who wound up in the World Series? The Rangers and the Cardinals. Not exactly big market clubs with huge revenue streams.
The Boston Red Sox, a team with a huge revenue stream and a payroll over the luxury tax threshold, the team that won the 2010 Winter Meetings with Gonzalez and Crawford, missed the playoffs entirely. :)
Small sample sizes work wonders.
The huge asymmetrical payroll advantages don’t always translate EVERY SINGLE YEAR into the top payroll teams making the playoffs, but the odds OVER TIME are undeniably in their favor.
Why should they be allowed to enjoy that clear advantage, which also involves the enormous luxury of taking chances with payroll, AND the ability to spend through mistakes?
Extending this logic, we might as well do away with the weight classifications in wrestling and boxing. After all, once in in a great while a welterweight, MIGHT actually KO a heavyweight
So you think baseball should be socialist and everyone should have roughly equal payrolls and revenue?
You are misusing a loaded term (particularly on a conservative forum), to distort the argument.
All games with rules from Monopoly to Chess to the NFL are “socialized”, in that the SAME RULES apply to everyone.
No one is asking for the owner of a flagship franchise like the St.Louis Cardinals to share his properly earned revenue with a lesser franchise like the Miami Marlins.
HOWEVER, for the good of the game, the amount of money which can be allotted for payroll should be the same for every team.
Cincinnati the previous year, along with the Giants. I can cite a few of these each season.
You continue to avoid the fundamental points made regarding the patently obvious, and long-term unfairness of the gross payroll discrepancies among teams.
So if the system is fair as it is, and to really bend the argument in your favor with a lot of latitude that grossly understates the magnitude of the discrepancies, you'd put REAL even money bets on the chances of teams in the bottom half of the team payroll rankings, to make the playoffs with the same frequency versus those in the top half?
I know the answer to that question.
So does any child
And so do you.
I’d be happy to be t on that. Decent management can overcome a lot. Watch Tampa over the next several years. Kansas City has had a bad spell, but they’re on the upswing. (The Yankees had long dry spells in the 1960s and 1980s.) There are some others.
Now, teams like Huston that are just incompetently managed have a long road ahead of them. But the Rays, Reds, Royals, and other small market teams figure to be competitive for a while.
Unlike, say, the Mets and Dodgers.
BTW, it’s $254 million.
Your use of the word “overcome” concedes the argument.
In a fair game, the ground rules are the same for all participants, and one player does not have to overcome a built-in disadvantage in the ground rules.
With the coming inflationary spiral, Pujols will be lucky to buy dinner with his $25 million in 10 years.
But the rules are the same for everyone. That’s the point. Your problem is that you’re approaching this like a socialist. Somehow, if one team has more money than another, you find that unfair.
What is this? Occupy Baseball?
Ha!
I agree.
Though some would argue that is not our inevitable future, even positing a deflationary (!) scenario. I can’t even begin to follow the rationale of that.
I know a fair amount about economics, but even a fundamental understanding of basic household money management would strongly indicate that all signs point toward corrosive, pathological inflation.
That is what I’m preparing for, anyway.
They do apparently plan to offer Morales a contract. he will not be non-tendered.
Total BS, and still yet more silly irrelevant word games.
Your avoidance, obfuscation, misdirection and clumsy interjection of charged jargon has now become just an utter waste of valuable time.
Have a nice CHRISTmas.
Weaver, Wilson, Haren, and Santana are a pretty tough foursome.
Non-tendering Kendrys Morale would be foolish, although likely. He was very solid prior to his injury and I’m sure LAA could get something for him.
The Angels do plan to offer him a contract. Morales will not be non-tendered. But Pujols, Morales, and Trumbo are a crowd.
Dude....do you work at the U.N.?
Dude, do you understand even basic economics?
Dude, do you understand why games have rules that are the same for everyone.
Dude, have you got an axe to grind.
Dude, do you understand even basic economics?
Dude, do you understand why games have rules that are the same for everyone.
Dude, have you got an axe to grind.
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