Balta1701

By 2026 that backend shouldn't be crippling. Salaries are nearly doubling every 10 to 15 years, so while $40 million is a lot right now, by that point the average payroll should be approaching $200 million based on current revenue growth.

I think it's much more simple - they're trying to make sure that the players and agents don't let these deals go down without them involved. They're willing to look bad if they don't get the guys in order to give it their best shot. They may even be willing to bid against themselves to get it done. Brian Cashman can play coy all he wants, everyone knows he's in on at least one if not both of the guys. That's not normally the case for the White Sox, and they want it to be the case now.

I'd be ok with 10/$400 evenly spread, because to be worth that deal based on performance the player basically has to put up ~5 to 4 WAR per year over the first 5 years and then, due to inflation, only 2-3 WAR per year over the last couple.

I gotta admit, tying the signing schedule to the draft pick compensation rules sounds like a really great idea to me. Create a deadline and everyone will shoot to finish by the deadline.

You said it would be a "huge issue" which I think read to lots of us like you saying it would be a bad thing. I usually don't use the phrase huge issue for things that are supposed to benefit, so I think there was some language confusion.

The next time there are consequences for a front office of a Reinsdorf owned team it will be the first time since the Jerry Krause era.

Well sure, but you're going to need the hands of jesus to help keep Jones healthy.

So is it your belief that the White Sox would not see additional revenues if they began a season like 2020 on a 100 win pace and that we should expect that limitation to be permanent? Because the Astros could absolutely have afforded a $125 million payroll during their rebuilding years but they didn't commit that until they had a strong enough team. Are you arguing that the idea of revenue growth with wins enabling us to spend more is "nonsense"?

Worth thinking about - I have no idea what the luxury tax structure will look like after the next MLB bargaining agreement. The Players side is deservedly annoyed with the fact that right now the share of revenues going to the players has declined over time, and they're deservedly annoyed with the setup last year where the market collapsed and left people out in the cold. At the very least, the players are going to push hard to create more space for teams to spend so that their share can at least hold steady rather than declining over time.

They are a solid model for how teams that have success are able to raise their payroll due to the success.

They're not going to approach $150 million if they can't win consistently first. Remember how it worked for the Astros. They were at $100 million when they had their team storm out to the 100 win pace, they added $20 million in Verlander's deal midseason, they then extended Altuve to push up towards $150 million.

There's a dollar value where he'd still make sense for us though, as he'd provide bullpen depth and could still be tradeable at the deadline. He's another guy that it makes sense to offer a contract of something like $2/10 or something that should be a lot less than he really gets, because we'd take him if that's what he signed for.

The devil you don't know is better than the one you do?

it is unfair to compare almost any defense to perhaps the most dominant single unit in NFL history.

Anyone want to say that the Rams lost gracefully or with style last night? They got their asses handed to them.

Trading people who are not currently under contract for 2020 does not make us worse in 2020, we should note.

Worry about that when he puts up decent numbers at A-ball or above. "We had to trade him because we had 5 all stars in our lineup" is not the worst thing ever to happen.

That was a paddlin'.

We learned today that the security guard who was killed in this mass shooting was killed by a bullet fired by a police officer who ran into the bar along with him. He was struck by 6 bullets, 1 lethal, and the lethal one came from the gun of the California Highway Patrol officer on the scene.

what exactly is a 5-3 run? A team making its first 2 shots while you make 1?

Wasn't Stephens just left unprotected in the rule 5 draft and then undrafted during it?

Blaming him for throwing in a player that no one in this org had seen because he was desperate to save his competitive 2016 roster and he'd traded away anything else in the org of value already is fair game.

Well it was said that the Tigers were also somewhat interested, but either way that was desperation by both teams.

Preller manufactured that discord? The Padres owner publicly called Shields out as being unprepared and unprofessional after his last start with the Padres where he blew up for like 10 runs or something along those lines.

any relations to greg walker and john kruk in those names?