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Except there are even more tricks and tax loopholes available for "big league" accountants...especially depreciation.

+ $22 million

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Low first round...high second right now. Could be in the first with these highlights, and bloodline.

It has to be balanced enough that a Detroit can "reasonably" or at least feasibly extend Skubal or the Pirates Paul Skenes... Ofc, the three teams I mentioned earlier won't even let those players get to years 6-7...they will inevitably get traded for younger/cheaper reinforcements. They're almost ruthlessly efficient in their decision making processes.

Soto Tatis Vladdy Marte...four best in the sport at their positions, arguably == at least for now, Mark Vientos https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/2026-world-baseball-classic-elly-035041360.html And Junior Caminero Top 3-5 3B Julio Rodriguez same for CF

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/48126931/donald-trump-plans-executive-order-solve-every-problem-raised-college-sports-panel Not sure what the answer is that lies between open free agency like what you have with NCAA football and basketball where players are now spending their careers with 4-5 different teams. Have gun will travel. Heck, $1 million softball players on one side, Livvy Dunne/Caitlin Clark/Eileen Gu on the other, QB's who won't even make it in the NFL getting $5-7 million plus endorsements... Solutions: seems to me for mlb baseball that it's giving up at least one out of six or seven years of player control in exchange. Disincentivizing teams from holding players in the minors for an extra year of control is another big part of this. But the NCAA is now the WIld Wild West. That's too much free market/lack of regulations. Total turnover of teams leads to fan frustration...yes, but also to the free market "innovations" of Indiana or Texas Tech, or BYU men's basketball. Otoh, Cinderella Sweet 16 stories in March Madness are quickly disappearing. Having the #1-2-3 NBA draft pick in D.Peterson on Kansas has arguably hurt them as a team. Is all that new unpredictability worth the turn over of 2/3rds or more of some NCAA teams? I don't know. I never thought women's ncaa basketball or softball (OU/Texas Tech) or volleyball (Nebraska) would eclipse men's ratings, either. Obviously college baseball has never been the big revenue driver like the other two sports...but even SEC coaching staffs are making more than big league equivalents now in some cases. The TN baseball coach got hired by Buster Posey, etc. Finally, MLB simply loves when the Cubs Dodgers Mets Red Sox and Yankees are in the World Series or NLCS...they most assuredly don't love TB Milwaukee Cleveland or Detroit advancing far in the post season. More revenue/ratings for everyone.

No Lindor/Correa...insurance companies as the villains, PR/Bad Bunny still winning the battle in San Juan for now. 5-0 Puerto Rico over Colombia

Sure, both sides. But then there's the issue of how players are treated their first three years in the big leagues as well as the minor leagues, which is still barely just a matter of surviving for non Top 2-3 round picks...especially in A ball and rookie/complex leagues. Not the slavery of Curt Flood days...but that Top 20% of MLB players' salaries blowing up is skewing the overall picture. Also, older/veteran players not who are not in the top tier are going the way of dinosaurs once they hit 33/34. Analytics have wiped them out in favor of prospects/players in their 20s and even teens...not unlike AI and robotics taking away jobs. Is a rising tide floating all boats? Trickle down? If you believe in the core mission of labor unions throughout the history of the country...and there are tons of talking points against, having been part of a public teachers' union, trust me, I've seen or heard every story, then it's still almost impossible to look at things as being equal or 50/50. But that's just me. Unless you work (directly/indirectly) for a billionaire, you're probably not going to be defending them. Another issue is private equity firms like Crystal Lake buying up a ton of minor league teams...does this "ruthless bottom line efficiency" lead to better fan experiences? Cheaper prices? Closer interactions with players/autograph signed? Not necessarily.

Nicaragua with three base runners on (K-wild pitch allowed one) in a row against heavy favorites DR en Miami. 1-0 no outs against C.Sanchez. Vientos the big name for the Managuans/Dusty Baker vs. Pujols... Bases loaded now, no outs. Vientos walked. k k Puerto Rico leading 2-0 in the middle innings against Jose Quintana/Colombia.

The majority of teams owning their own broadcasting networks AND with significant investments in surrounding ballpark villages/entertainment districts are making a killing. See Braves/Atlanta. But that's only around 12 teams. And that's not even counting gambling/casino money through partnerships. The huge expansion of MLB Intl, such as Canada and Japan as well as the huge growth in the WBC. Mexico will eventually get a big league team, too. (But sure White Sox, KC and Twins are struggling...although the Tigers are hardly hurting if they're up to $230-240 million in payroll. The White Sox are down $35 million on RSN money from all available reporting. But eventually, that will get evened out as every team becomes part of Disney+/ESPN so the overall value of the package per team will certainly increase.) And comparatively NBA valuations are REALLY exploding. StASmith was fighting with Zion's defenders again online and cited the $2.95 valuation of the Pelicans as #29/30 in the NBA. Padres are right in the middle of the pack and they will fetch around $2.5-3.0 billion.

I did make a separate thread. Ages ago. Then a certain someone started posting in here and/or the Murakami thread....so? Nobody started the Sox game thread against CLE so it came over here. Then the morning WBC game with Mead was on right after. So flipping back and forth on threads at the same time...on a phone...no bueno.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/wbc-sidearmer-ko-young-pyo-looking-to-keep-things-simple-in-start-vs-japan/ar-AA1XF2iR?ocid=BingNewsSerp Yusei Kikuchi vs. a 34 year old side-armer with limited success outside of Korea, what could go wrong? Starting pitching the only real weakness now for Japan...

Ohtani a triple away from the cycle going into the Top of the 4th inning Mune grounded into a FO his last at bat Genda nailed him out with a two run single up the middle Yamamoto pulled after 2 2/3 but threw over fifty pitches so will sit at least four days Ohtani had a shot but leaping snare by 1B denied him for now 7 total bases...

Probably throws him out with a clean play at second but not an easy one...guess they will just leave Yamamoto out there and hold him off for quarters/semi finals. "If a team is up by 15 or more runs after five innings or 10 or more runs after seven innings, the game will be called in favor of the leader. This will not carry on past pool play, however, and teams will have a chance to make a comeback." 8-0 now 10-0 craziness!! Ohtani two hits in the inning Taipei and Czechia both 0-2...comes down to Australia/Korea, unless Korea can pull off the biggest upset in WBC history playing without HaSeong Kim and Song (Padres).

grand salami ohtani was way out on his front foot/off balance and still got enough of it just with arm strength

Ohtani doubles off RF wall stranded at third by Okamoto K Munetaka moved down to sixth behind Yoshida/Okamoto Ohtani cleared the huge digital scoreboard in RCF in bp must have been 460-475 feet Mune walked on five pitches swung at a slider and missed 2B Maki single to lcf Genda SS hbp bases loaded for catcher Ohtani

Thorpe...Sugano...Quintana https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-pitchers-succeeding-without-high-velocity-in-2024

4 hits so far, including the homer accounting for all the AUSTRALIA scoring...what's now looking like the game winner unless Czechia can rally with six outs left to go. Yamamoto is going to absolutely destroy Taipei tonight with the way they looked yesterday. Maybe they will be motivated to pull off an all time upset, but not betting on it happening in Japan.

After you wrote that long but instructive essay...?

Leave it to the Japanese to have an elementary kids' field trip on a school day to come and cheer for Team Australia at Tokyo Dome. Ofc one kid was already dead asleep. Turned into a pitcher's battle. Escala, what the hell are you doing?

Czech Republic plays about as well as you can expect with pretty much everyone but T.Vavra having full time jobs back home. Manager is a neurologist. Have been to Ostrava. It's just across Polish border/Auschwitz-Buchenwald. This is the guy who got out Ohtani I think three years ago. Struck him out of three pitches. Shades of Shingo Takatsu. Minus the 90-92 fb. Escala got those two giant bags of candy after HBP in 2023...played at both Miami's, FL and OH.

But who does he play over? Vargas? Sosa? Hays?

Bazzana shaky there seems so hyper pitcher will be out of game as reaching fifty pitches means you have to sit for four days in WBC

86-87 mph fb makes Thorpe look like a flamethrower Korean starter last night at least was at 92 https://www.amazon.com/Sacrifice-Everything-Baseball-Republics-Underdogs/dp/1496242661 Czechia Beat Spain in qualifying for 2023 China in WBC they actually had a boat load of base runners but couldn't get the night hit except Terrin Vavra Aust starter tonight lefty in low 90s starts for KC Indy league team an mlb team just signed Italy starting catcher to an milb contract fwiw