"Good for the League" What is that?
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MLB teams operate on different margins.
Kluber - Yankees
Rosario- Indians
just another example of it
The Yankees can pay a guy like Kluber 11M this season. His arm appears to be shot. He doesn’t work he goes on the DL and they find someone prior to the deadline and absorb half of that salary too.
The Indians pay Rosario 8M put him in the middle of the lineup cast a guy like Naquin away. And they hope and pray he works so they can keep open an outside shot at a wildcard and produce enough runs for their rotation. If he doesn’t they will bring up a AA AAA guy in July and hope he works. But they are hesitate to do that because it starts his free agent clock.
Same Game Same League Yet they operate in two different waysMLB teams operate on different margins.
Kluber - Yankees
Rosario- Indians
just another example of it
The Yankees can pay a guy like Kluber 11M this season. His arm appears to be shot. He doesn’t work he goes on the DL and they find someone prior to the deadline and absorb half of that salary too.
The Indians pay Rosario 8M put him in the middle of the lineup cast a guy like Naquin away. And they hope and pray he works so they can keep open an outside shot at a wildcard and produce enough runs for their rotation. If he doesn’t they will bring up a AA AAA guy in July and hope he works. But they are hesitate to do that because it starts his free agent clock.
Same Game Same League Yet they operate in two different waysThe point of my earlier post was to demonstrate the fact that the Yankees have a 111 million payroll, and the Orioles only a 23 million payroll. With that kind of disparity in the ability of a team to pay players....how could you ever have parity.
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MLB teams operate on different margins.
Kluber - Yankees
Rosario- Indians
just another example of it
The Yankees can pay a guy like Kluber 11M this season. His arm appears to be shot. He doesn’t work he goes on the DL and they find someone prior to the deadline and absorb half of that salary too.
The Indians pay Rosario 8M put him in the middle of the lineup cast a guy like Naquin away. And they hope and pray he works so they can keep open an outside shot at a wildcard and produce enough runs for their rotation. If he doesn’t they will bring up a AA AAA guy in July and hope he works. But they are hesitate to do that because it starts his free agent clock.
Same Game Same League Yet they operate in two different waysThe point of my earlier post was to demonstrate the fact that the Yankees have a 111 million payroll, and the Orioles only a 23 million payroll. With that kind of disparity in the ability of a team to pay players....how could you ever have parity.
The point of my earlier post was to demonstrate the fact that the Yankees have a 111 million payroll, and the Orioles only a 23 million payroll. With that kind of disparity in the ability of a team to pay players....how could you ever have parity.
The stars have to align and The room for error is razor thin.
My post was just to highlight your point in an actual offseason scenario.
When the Indians have been serious contenders in the past decade (Back in the 90s they spent money in comparison to others) They weren’t paying the second contract with their “star” players that was the key. Other Contributing factors stuff came together at the right time (timely hitting, or great bullpen, or starting pitching, and a few times all of the above). Secondly, they did the trademark one year deal with veterans coming off a year where they struggled examples: Mike Napoli, Rajai Davis, Austin Jackson, Yonder Alonzo. Lastly, they seemed to have a guy or two each year emerge from the Farm to be an unexpected or earlier than projected success (farm is the lifeline of these types of teams).
For every small market great story like the Rays Indians the majority of the time parity isn’t possible without the perfect storm for these teams
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To highlight the above comments, small market team do emerge on a fairly regular basis, but those teams change from one year or two to the next while the big market teams always seem to be in the mix. The reason is it is more of a sure thing to buy a proven major leaguer than hope this guy or that guy have career years and a few of the young guys come up and actually make a solid impact.
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