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I played hoops at The Rock with Orlando Woolridge, Silk Wilcox, Phil Pozderac, Luther Bradley and Jerome Heavens. JH was the nicest, most unpretentious guy I ever knew.

On bad days!

Think of all the money spent beyond what was on the luxury tax budget: Castillo Craig Moncada's signing penalty fee Dice-K's posting fee I'm sure there's more.

I heard he had X-Ray and Infrared vision.

Blue Jays sign Granderson. Does this take them out of the JD sweepstakes?

...and the JBJ market.

They didn't give much financial aid back in my day. My family had 4 kids in college at the same time! However, my sisters were paying $12-15K at Yale, and the understanding was that ND kept their prices lower for all to counter for financial aid to just a few. What hall were you in? I was in the jock hall (Fisher Hall by the South Dining Hall. Joe Montana's room was in the same hallway as mine, but he never stepped foot in it. (I often wondered who collected all the envelopes the alumni kept slipping under his door!) We were there for some great years.

Well, if he has surgery, he may be recovered by 2019 or 2020.

It's imperative that we don't pick up Hanley's vested option for 2019. We will absolutely not extend Porcello after 2019. I can see Sox shopping him if a viable alternative surfaces in our farm system. It would also help if we don't have a need for Kimbrel in 2019 and beyond. Basically we can use Hanley's money to sign Pom (his $8.5M for 2018 is already baked in, so it's a delta of say $11.5M to give him a $20M deal). That still leaves around $9M from Hanley's contract that can even go for Kimbrel. He's already making $13M. Sale's new contract can come from the money we're paying Sandoval right now. That's $19M in savings plus what Chris is making right now to get him to $30M plus. Luxury tax limit will jump to $206M in 2019 or $9M increase. That amount should cover much of the arbitration raises from 2018 to 2019. Basically we're good through 2020, window of 3 years. Younger kids need to emerge over the next three years. The arb costs will rise significantly, so that will eat up a good chunk or HRam and Pablo's departing deals over the next few years. Porcello's $20M may help, but if he does well over the next two years, replacing him for $20M might be difficult. I agree the "window" goes to 2020 not 2019, but we also have to consider the tax rates go up every time you go over the limit in consecutive years. If we go over in 2019 and 2020 we'll be in the 3rd year penalty phase, and it will be very costly to Henry. A problem might arise, if Henry decides to reset after 2019, then 2020 might be outside the "window."

When I went to the University of Notre Dame from '77 to '81, football and basketball tickets were included in the cost. I believe we paid about $6-9K per year for me to go there. Now, it's about $65,000 for tuition and room & board.

Fans will also buy tickets and tune in when the team wins with a bunch of no-names, but selling season tickets in the winter is tied to big splash sign ings.

Agreed. I'm almost certain, one way or another, we end up over the second penalty limit.

It may not be an either/or. If darvish will make about $100M, we can get Darvish AND Morrison for close to what JD will make I'm not a huge Morrison or Duda fan, but both have put up some big power numbers (Morrison for 1 year- Duda for 4 years). If we can find a take for HRam that saves us $5-9M, there's no log jam at all, and we're spending less than if we sign JD and keep HRam. There is a chance Morrison's 38 HRs was not a fluke.

True, but we need a 5th starter. Cole is a decent 3 starter. I'm wondering why we didn't make a try. (Maybe we did.)

Quote Originally Posted by a700hitter View Post JD would not cause as much of a logjam or impede the versatility of the bench as Morrison would cause. A fourth outfielder should get plenty of time subbing for the starting 3 outfielders and playing DH. ANd the key is that the offensive upgrade with JD far outweighs any upgrade with Morrison, so JD would be worth the any loss of bench flexibility. Morrison is just not worth it. If it comes down to Morrison or nothing, I move into the status quo camp despite the fact that I think that is an irrational strategy. !!! Except that Morrison can play LF (probably at pretty close to the same leve as JD), so the bench logjam is pretty similar, while the cost differential is immense.

Well, we know now that Betts' cost will likely not be $9M. It will be either $7.5M or $10.5M. Let's assume we go over the limit by $39M (just below the third tier limit). We pay 20% on the first $20M, which is $4M. We'd pay 32% on the next $19M, which is about $6.1M. In total, the tax alone would be about $10M.

Out of the top 11 long-term, mega contracts on my list, 8 began at age 30 or older and 4 began at age 32 or older. ARod's first contract, Kershaw's deal and Stanton's are the only ones beginning at age 25 to 26.

I live in Sugar Land, Texas- just Southwest of Houston. They are a fun team to watch, and they are managed very well. The Cole trade was a steal. I'm very surprised nobody could top that offer, even a team like the Sox with a depleted farm. Word is, the two prospects the Pirates got were "throw-in" types.

I think the appearance of D Hernandez and L Cedrola in the top 10 shows how close to each other non top prospects can be. They are very hit-or-miss. Groome, Chavis, Houck and Mata seem to be the consensus top 4 that are separated by a wide gap between them and the others.

One way small market teams replenish their farm is to sign their stars, even to (usually back-ended) contracts they know they cannot pay, knowing they will just trade them when the cost per year gets too high. It's a successful strategy- not fiscal irresponsibility. Yes, sometimes they sign a promising player to a contract and that player does not "play to the value", and they get stuck with an untradeable player, but most of the time, the strategy works. The Rays have mastered this plan. The Marlins have a long history of signing big contracts then dumping them, sometimes right after a ring.

The public pays for the stadium. We'd probably be surprised at how much the owners actually made (make) when everything is factored in.

Way more than he made year by year combined.

If the Yanks can get darvish for under $100M/5, the Sox should offer $105M/5, and then sign Morrison to $30M/2. That's about what JD might get combined..

The biggest "killing" comes when the owner sells his team, That is something that is often lost when viewing how the money is split up.

I'm sure the average everyday worker would love to see their share go up at just 17% less than the big wigs' share.