Bellhorn04
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Everything posted by Bellhorn04
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It's kind of like the Mafia. They have always been very resourceful and adaptive in devising ways to separate people from their money.
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If the umps are cooperating, it's pretty much a done deal now.
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The question is how baseball revenues continue to rise when attendance and viewership are apparently dropping. That's why I raised the 'partnerships' thing as a possible explanation.
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Where is all the new dough flowing from? Probably from the new 'partnerships' like Nike and DraftKings, isn't it?
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Yes, a big miss on my part.
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As far as obvious concrete examples go, you can't do any better than the '16 Cubs and the '17 Astros. Both teams somewhat notoriously tanked for a few years, scoring high draft picks that were integral to building championship teams.
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It's one of those things that's just obvious. When we talk about the farm, what we're really talking about is being successful at scouting, drafting and developing players.
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Not to mention producing Betts, JBJ, Benintendi, Devers, Barnes etc.
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You only lose pool money if you exceed the tax threshold AND sign a free agent who has rejected a QO. http://m.mlb.com/glossary/transactions/international-amateur-free-agency-bonus-pool-money
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You really think most fans don't care if there are any exciting prospects in the system or not? You must think the average fan is basically an ignoramus, I guess.
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Or not.
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I think most fans care about the farm. Even if they don't follow it closely they recognize how important it is. It's always been important.
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Not true and not true.
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There's no draft penalty unless you go over by $40 million or more.
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I don't think any of us expected that by Christmas they would have done virtually nothing.
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I do have a suspicion they may have floated the reset goal to see how fans reacted with ticket sales and are now reconsidering.
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Yeah the writer is no budgie.
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Hmm...that's a pretty good line.
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Well, Bloom has his work cut out there, you have to admit. We're going to be subtracting talent, clearly, from an 84-win team whose pitching rotation features health question marks in Sale and Eovaldi.
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I do agree that not fielding a competitive team will have an adverse affect. That's what makes it interesting to see exactly what they do.
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$100 million over a 3 year period, just to clarify.
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It would be very punitive this year though, because it would be the third year over the threshold. Plus they would lose revenue sharing money.
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Not by much though. FanGraphs had his total value for 2017-2019 at about 18 mill. Plus that huge 3-run jack in the WS.
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It's usually the way it works when teams win championships, though. A lot of stuff goes your way. It doesn't happen two years in a row. So we have no back to back WS winners any more.
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Don't be disgusted until something actually happens.
