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Post by geostorm on Dec 11, 2022 7:50:39 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 11, 2022 5:57:04 GMT -5
"There wasn’t any doubt that owner Steve Cohen was prepared to keep spending in order to keep his 101-game winning team in line to be World Series contenders. However, the spending spree has just continued to reach record levels, as Roster Resource projects the Mets for a 2023 payroll of roughly $334.68MM, and a luxury tax number of just over $349.5MM.
This not only dwarfs the $233MM Competitive Balance Tax threshold, it even soars past the fourth and highest ($293MM) tier of the CBT. The fourth tier was instituted in the last collective bargaining agreement as a further penalty for excessive spending, and was unofficially nicknamed the “Steve Cohen Tax” given how the owner made no secret of his intentions to heavily increase payroll. Since this is the Mets’ second consecutive year of tax overage, they’ll face a two-time repeater penalty, as well as a 90 percent overage tax on any dollar spent beyond the $233MM mark. This works out to around $104.85MM in tax penalty — according to Fangraphs, 11 teams currently aren’t slated to spend more than $104.85MM on their entire 2023 payrolls."
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Post by geostorm on Dec 10, 2022 8:28:10 GMT -5
www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/35218184/mlb-free-agency-winter-meetings-spending-spree"SAN DIEGO -- The industry's executives and agents filed out of the Manchester Grand Hyatt in clusters late Wednesday afternoon, leaving behind the madness of an event that had somehow exceeded lofty expectations of extravagance. Major League Baseball's winter meetings, back for the first time in three years, had seen money flow and precedents buckle -- but one final stunner remained. It came Wednesday night, while most of the sport's movers and shakers sat inside airplanes bound for their respective home cities. The San Diego Padres, a midmarket team that already possessed enviable infield depth and a massive payroll, agreed on an 11-year, $280 million contract with Xander Bogaerts, one of the premier shortstops on the free agent market. A text message from a rival general manager said it all: Holy s---. I'm totally speechless."
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Post by geostorm on Dec 10, 2022 8:11:10 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 10, 2022 3:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 10, 2022 3:23:54 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 9, 2022 10:42:24 GMT -5
Pathetic organization. We're the fucking Red Sox and we're bleeding out Mookie, Xander and surely soon enough Devers. This was bad enough in the past, but it's downright inexcusable now.
Signing Correa would ease some of the anger I'm feeling right now, but not a lot. It shouldn't have come to this. Reward your own. I feel ya, Don ! !...baseball aside, was also a couple of my nieces' (and their parents) fave player, after meeting him, during an open Fenway Park family day, where players interact with the fans, on the field, in this case, a handful of yeara ago...they spotted him, got excited about getting a picture w him, and, while they struggled to get a selfie w/ him, he deftly offered & assisted, as they handed him their phone, and, X captured a wonderful memory for them, & their Dad (my nephew) they still cherish. Meanwhile, this cross my twitter feed, this morning, and, couldn't help but laugh, thinking of it, Don, as I read your accounting (guess Sox FO would be the driver & you/Sox fans, the passenger? )
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Post by geostorm on Dec 8, 2022 22:07:49 GMT -5
Not signing a guy on the wrong side of 30 to an 11 year deal = unforced error these days apparently I’m of the belief they would’ve had to offer something silly this spring to get Boras to steer his client away from UFA. We know how Boras operates Pretty sure there is at least one example of a Boras client eschewing UFA to take a hometown discount. My memory isn’t what it used to be. Anyone recall the player...? Chipper Jones?; J Weaver? Tek?
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Post by geostorm on Dec 7, 2022 19:08:31 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 7, 2022 15:24:12 GMT -5
Were they ever reported to be?? Maybe I just missed something but this seems so random
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Post by geostorm on Dec 7, 2022 14:47:09 GMT -5
The way Rob Bradford was dropping comms about X, during & end of season, regarding his potential FA & the level of engagement by the Red Sox, along the way, surprised he's not some kind of "in" other than this
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Post by geostorm on Dec 6, 2022 21:02:36 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Sept 4, 2022 9:20:01 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Sept 4, 2022 9:19:20 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Aug 25, 2022 18:16:23 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Aug 2, 2022 16:02:35 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Aug 1, 2022 19:20:29 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Aug 1, 2022 15:36:06 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Aug 1, 2022 15:21:43 GMT -5
I'm not expert enough, nor know anything at all about underlying details, but a pick this late, receiving a 7 figure deal, seems unusual
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Post by geostorm on Jul 30, 2022 13:28:47 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jul 1, 2022 17:35:39 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jun 25, 2022 12:50:09 GMT -5
Sometimes they suck at keeping the name too. "The New Orleans Jazz" made sense. But does anyone go to Utah to hear jazz bands? The "Indy Colts," "St. Louis Rams," and "Ariz. Cardinals" still sound odd to me. The Rams won the last SB in their rightful home, LA. Didn't the Rams start in Chicago? Or Cleveland?
Aren't there more colts in Indy than in Baltimore (or did the name come from the Preakness?)?
Did the Dodgers last win the WS in their rightful home of LA?
Enquiring minds want to know...
Rams started in CLE, and, while I'm not aware of quantity of colts, Indy v Balt, do know that Robert Irsay, after purchasing the RAMS, turned around and traded the Rams team, to Carol Rosenbloom, for the COLTS team, forever altering their respective team histories
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Post by geostorm on Jun 24, 2022 22:08:10 GMT -5
Well, the river caught on fire in the 1970s because it was so polluted. So there's that. And there are a few Jimi Hendrix guitars in the RRHOF, along with one of Elvis's. So, those are hills to die on. It is the birthplace of Rock’n’Roll, where Alan Freed started, got the kids dancing. It has also always been a huge rock town, a great market for bands and the starting place of some great ones. I have talked myself into a rock-themed name. Pretenders? Dead Boys? (Thinking locally) ...from their Wiki, they've certainty have enough opps to name a team!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cleveland_sports_teams )
...towards your point, think the general "Cleveland Rockers" would've been a great brand to build around, allowing for an integrated relationship between them and the HoF, with folks much smarter than I am imagining different ways to maximize/cross promote that relationship?...
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Post by geostorm on Jun 22, 2022 21:31:07 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jun 18, 2022 20:40:58 GMT -5
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