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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 11, 2019 0:17:15 GMT -5
I hope they don't f** that game up That and 2K was legit the top games in the market and 2K got f***ed up this year, I don't need MLB going the same way The only other baseball game out there is RBI Baseball and that has screamed "budget game" for years. I am hoping that the move to multi-platform doesn't mean a sacrifice in quality as I've been dying to play The Show for years but can't justify paying money for pay for a PS4 (or soon a PS5). I'm an Xbox guy and a Switch owner. It should still be the same. Considering by the time 2021 roles around, both PS5 and Xbox Scorpio will have been on the market a few months and I don't think graphically there should be too much difference Gameplay is going to be as excellent as usual
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Post by Rolent Tex on Dec 11, 2019 0:19:12 GMT -5
Cole to Yanks...9 years, $324 million.
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Post by Perd on Dec 11, 2019 0:21:07 GMT -5
He’s making like 10 million per start. Goddamn.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Dec 11, 2019 0:38:22 GMT -5
He’s making like 10 million per start. Goddamn. If you go by his starts this year, it’s like 1.1 million per start.
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Post by Perd on Dec 11, 2019 0:52:20 GMT -5
He’s making like 10 million per start. Goddamn. If you go by his starts this year, it’s like 1.1 million per start. Yeah, what in the hell am I talking about? Total brainfart on my account.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 11, 2019 1:00:46 GMT -5
He’s making like 10 million per start. Goddamn. If you go by his starts this year, it’s like 1.1 million per start. Still a shit ton of money Yanks basically hoping he. is a home run signing like CC was Also they are the first team to have two $300 mill players under their team in Cole and Stanton tho in fairness they didn't sign Giancarlo to his deal
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 1:21:24 GMT -5
Well no one can say the baseball off season is boring anymore. It’s been fun as hell this year, a much needed change after the borefests the previous 2-3 years.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Dec 11, 2019 3:17:25 GMT -5
Well no one can say the baseball off season is boring anymore. It’s been fun as hell this year, a much needed change after the borefests the previous 2-3 years. Yeah, you didn't have to wait until next year for the big names to sign (unlike last year), because they know exactly where they want to go and teams will pay big bucks for them.
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Post by Fundertaker on Dec 11, 2019 5:07:56 GMT -5
I hope they don't f** that game up That and 2K was legit the top games in the market and 2K got f***ed up this year, I don't need MLB going the same way The only other baseball game out there is RBI Baseball and that has screamed "budget game" for years. I am hoping that the move to multi-platform doesn't mean a sacrifice in quality as I've been dying to play The Show for years but can't justify paying money for pay for a PS4 (or soon a PS5). I'm an Xbox guy and a Switch owner. Super Mega Baseball 2 people! May not have the MLB license, but it's still a great baseball game.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Dec 11, 2019 7:29:10 GMT -5
If you go by his starts this year, it’s like 1.1 million per start. Still a shit ton of money Yanks basically hoping he. is a home run signing like CC was Also they are the first team to have two $300 mill players under their team in Cole and Stanton tho in fairness they didn't sign Giancarlo to his deal I’d love to have a job where I show up to do my job and make a cool million.
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Post by domrep on Dec 11, 2019 9:20:08 GMT -5
Official: Nationals resign Howie Kendrick and Yan Gomes.Rendon, Scherzer and Strasburg make The MLB’s All First Team while Soto makes the All Second Team. Feels good. As much of a reminder of the 2019 World Series as they'll be, you don't want your franchise to be too wedded to last year's postseason heroes. Sometimes it's better to cut ties with the past to preserve the future. I think back to the Red Sox winning the 2018 World Series thanks in large part to impending free agents Steve Pearce and Nathan Eovaldi, and rewarding their postseason heroics with new contracts. Then, in the follow-up campaign, Pearce hit .180/.245/.258 in 29 injury-plagued games and Eovaldi struggled to a 5.99 ERA in only 67.2 innings. I'm not saying Kendrick and Gomes are destined to be busts, and they aren't making anything resembling significant money, but Kendrick is entering his age-37 season and Gomes is coming off a .223/.316/.389 season. I wouldn't expect them to replicate their playoff performances in 2020. At best, they'll be bench players getting sporadic playing time. --- And speaking of playoff heroes, David Price's name appears to be drawing interest on the trade market. According to Jeff Passan, several teams are interested in dealing for Price, but the Red Sox would almost certainly have to kick in cash to defray the remaining $96 million left on his contract, which runs through at least 2022. I definitely wanted Gomes and Howie back, their deals are fine. Parra I believe signed with a team in Japan, I wouldn't bring back Zim but that's just me.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 11, 2019 12:30:34 GMT -5
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Post by Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen on Dec 11, 2019 12:44:39 GMT -5
I'm fine with it. Yankees got the guy they wanted and paid for it. I'm so tired of teams and fans crying foul when the Yankees, Red Sox, etc. pay out the wazoo for players. All the owners have the ability to do it. Quit whining, billionaires who pay millionaires.
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Dec 11, 2019 13:14:31 GMT -5
As much of a reminder of the 2019 World Series as they'll be, you don't want your franchise to be too wedded to last year's postseason heroes. Sometimes it's better to cut ties with the past to preserve the future. I think back to the Red Sox winning the 2018 World Series thanks in large part to impending free agents Steve Pearce and Nathan Eovaldi, and rewarding their postseason heroics with new contracts. Then, in the follow-up campaign, Pearce hit .180/.245/.258 in 29 injury-plagued games and Eovaldi struggled to a 5.99 ERA in only 67.2 innings. I'm not saying Kendrick and Gomes are destined to be busts, and they aren't making anything resembling significant money, but Kendrick is entering his age-37 season and Gomes is coming off a .223/.316/.389 season. I wouldn't expect them to replicate their playoff performances in 2020. At best, they'll be bench players getting sporadic playing time. --- And speaking of playoff heroes, David Price's name appears to be drawing interest on the trade market. According to Jeff Passan, several teams are interested in dealing for Price, but the Red Sox would almost certainly have to kick in cash to defray the remaining $96 million left on his contract, which runs through at least 2022. I definitely wanted Gomes and Howie back, their deals are fine. Parra I believe signed with a team in Japan, I wouldn't bring back Zim but that's just me. I feel like they have to bring back Zimmerman. He's the franchise icon. Now you can't keep him at the kind of deal he had before but on a short deal like Howie's, it works. He was big in the playoffs.
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Post by fw91 on Dec 11, 2019 15:26:12 GMT -5
I'm fine with it. Yankees got the guy they wanted and paid for it. I'm so tired of teams and fans crying foul when the Yankees, Red Sox, etc. pay out the wazoo for players. All the owners have the ability to do it. Quit whining, billionaires who pay millionaires. All owners don’t have the ability to do it. Otherwise they would
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Post by Mecca on Dec 11, 2019 15:32:42 GMT -5
I'm fine with it. Yankees got the guy they wanted and paid for it. I'm so tired of teams and fans crying foul when the Yankees, Red Sox, etc. pay out the wazoo for players. All the owners have the ability to do it. Quit whining, billionaires who pay millionaires. All owners don’t have the ability to do it. Otherwise they would The Yankees have a bigger profit cushion to do it and not break even or turn a small profit but every team could spend more. MLB teams are making more than 80 mill a year. The Indians turned a 282 million dollar profit last year, don't tell me they can't afford players, they just choose that they want to make more money. There's this big disinformation shit out there that teams lose money, that's horseshit, they don't. The KC Royals could spend 175 mill and make money, don't be fooled by their bullshit.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 11, 2019 15:38:31 GMT -5
I'm fine with it. Yankees got the guy they wanted and paid for it. I'm so tired of teams and fans crying foul when the Yankees, Red Sox, etc. pay out the wazoo for players. All the owners have the ability to do it. Quit whining, billionaires who pay millionaires. All owners don’t have the ability to do it. Otherwise they would Not all but a good majority do Not everyone can afford a $300 mill contract of course but every team can afford $100 million player and choose not to dish it out. Tampa Bay being notorious of being tight on the purse strings As was said before, their needs to be a salary floor and teams should be forced to spend 90% of it. Miami Marlins have a stadium they don't pay for and yet their payroll is the lowest. Obviously they are trying to lose but things like that is crazy in the grand scheme of things
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Post by Mecca on Dec 11, 2019 15:43:12 GMT -5
Here are some thoughts on this from twitter...
The tax threshold was $170M in 2010, and $197M in 2018, a jump of 16%. MLB revenue jumped from $6.1B in 2010 to $10.3B in 2018. That’s a 69% jump. If the threshold had moved with revenues, it would have been more than $250M two years ago, and higher today.
If you’re a sports team owner that ever uses the word “afford”:
1) Open your books or 2) Shut up
Say what you want about Scott Boras, but he's never tried to convince me that one of his clients made $9.75/hour last year. Owners -- unimaginably rich titans of industry -- spend half their time convincing us a baseball team is a bad deal and we should feel bad for them.
When a player has a bad year, or merely gets hurt, we hold his salary over his head like a sword, beat him with it like a it's a bat. When do we start holding owners to that same standard?
Those are all from Joe Sheehan and I can't say I disagree with any of it.
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Dec 11, 2019 15:54:13 GMT -5
Here are some thoughts on this from twitter... The tax threshold was $170M in 2010, and $197M in 2018, a jump of 16%. MLB revenue jumped from $6.1B in 2010 to $10.3B in 2018. That’s a 69% jump. If the threshold had moved with revenues, it would have been more than $250M two years ago, and higher today. If you’re a sports team owner that ever uses the word “afford”: 1) Open your books or 2) Shut up Say what you want about Scott Boras, but he's never tried to convince me that one of his clients made $9.75/hour last year. Owners -- unimaginably rich titans of industry -- spend half their time convincing us a baseball team is a bad deal and we should feel bad for them. When a player has a bad year, or merely gets hurt, we hold his salary over his head like a sword, beat him with it like a it's a bat. When do we start holding owners to that same standard? Those are all from Joe Sheehan and I can't say I disagree with any of it. Baseball is not a broke sport and that image really needs to die down. The fact that their is no salary cap dictates how people spend and this is the results we get. They choose not to spend for a variety of reasons but all of that is due to comfort level. Miami got finessed. Get a new stadium under the taxpayers dollar only to have a team for one year before shipping everyone off No one is saying you have to be a top 10 spender every year for 10 years but you should be spending when the situations are right. MLB teams continue to lean on the excuse of well, we are only going to have this player 6-7 years before they hit free agency so I might as well trade them before then when that doesn't have to be the case. Look at Lindor and how his name has essentially been on the market for his clock to countdown despite the fact the Indians were a good squad
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Post by Spider2024 on Dec 11, 2019 16:16:21 GMT -5
I'm fine with it. Yankees got the guy they wanted and paid for it. I'm so tired of teams and fans crying foul when the Yankees, Red Sox, etc. pay out the wazoo for players. All the owners have the ability to do it. Quit whining, billionaires who pay millionaires. I'm not saying "shed a tear for the richer teams", but I do feel the need to point out that even they have to spend wisely, even if they have more money to spend in free agency. It still has to be the right players to sign, and even the richer teams have to pray every night that their FA signings actually pan out and play well in those FA contracts. Or else they're not winning championships, which is the only reason they add so many zero's to the check. But yes, smaller market teams still have it harder. Their method of putting a winning team out there is basically: Draft very well, build up their minor leaguers, hope and pray their fresh faces eventually grow into quality major leaguers that play well enough together to win even one World Series, before they lose their best players to richer teams in free agency. Rich teams still need their farm system, it's just easier for them to make up deficiencies in their home grown talent. It's easier for them to plug holes with the checkbook, but the checkbook can't buy a whole championship team neither. And yes, losing home grown talent to the checkbook happens to big teams too: Mookie Betts being a Red Sox lifer is about a 50/50 percents chance right now.
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