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Watch out Pirates ... here we come!!!

All the former Padres...except for ones that can actually play SS.

Marinara Sauce is the favorite to close right?

949 Each Team Is Getting 200+ Million Each In Revenue Sharing? And Teams Still Refuse To Spend? (self.baseball) submitted 1 year ago by Chicago CubsBaybears “Under the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) negotiated in 2022, each MLB team pools 48 per cent of local revenues with the total amount split equally between all 30 teams. This results in each team taking in 3.3 per cent of the total—an estimated $110 million USD, if not more. Teams also receive a share of national revenues, totalling around $90 million USD per team.” Source: https://www.thetribune.ca/sports/mlb/#:~:text=Under%20the%20new%20collective%20bargaining,million%20USD%2C%20if%20not%20more. “It's comical how many people are out there in comment threads on articles or in threads on reddit crying for a salary cap and yet they continue to defend these owner's that refuse to spend on their teams. If Tampa Bay would just spend some god damn money on their roster they'd have probably won multiple world series over the last 10 years at this point. It's ridiculous. People cry over wanting a salary cap and yet you have these teams that aren't even spending their revenue sharing money. In the next CBA they need to mandate that if you want to receive revenue sharing that like at least 90% of it needs to go toward player salaries. Enough of this s%*#. If you can't afford to spend 100 million minimum on your team's salary when you're receiving this much in revenue sharing then you have no business owning a major sports team and should sell it.”

https://harris.uchicago.edu/files/inline-files/Chapter 5%2C Mark Siedentopf.pdf Read pages 88/89…the total cost of all the Bears and Sox renovations and refinancing them three times comes up to $1.19 billion dollars that Illinois taxpayers will owe, well over double the original cost of the renovations themselves. So there’s just no way in hell Reinsdorf will get another dime from the State, nor should he.

According to a 2017 financial report, ISFA’s combined fund deficits stand at $207.5 million. And taxpayers are still on the hook for debt repayments following a series of renovations at Guaranteed Rate Field and an overhaul of Soldier Field completed in 2003. Through Chicago hotel tax revenue and a combined $10 million in annual state and local subsidies, taxpayers can expect to continue shouldering these costs for decades. More recently, a cancelled concert at Guaranteed Rate Field cost taxpayers more than $1 million in 2017, when ISFA failed to obtain a full refund for the $1.6 million spent on the event. Chicago taxpayers are also picking up the tab for stadiums outside ISFA’s purview. For example, the recent construction of Wintrust Arena, home to DePaul University’s basketball teams and WNBA’s Chicago Sky, cost taxpayers $82.5 million. “If the White Sox attendance falls below 800,000, the Illinois Sports Authority has to make up the difference to protect Reinsdorf from losing money. So in effect, horrible attendance protects them from losing money, except of course, for concessions and other things. So, as I understand it, if no fans showed up, he would still be made whole, and only lose whatever he would’ve sold in concessions and Parking...” https://www.illinoispolicy.org/30-years-later-taxpayers-still-on-the-hook-for-white-sox-stadium/

Wasn’t it just $277 million last year?

Well...we're pretty much the anti-Padres at this point. Despite 7 $100+ million contracts (injured Musgrove, Cronenworth and Bogaerts the worst) and a tiny media market, their stadium and game atmosphere/weather have pushed them past the Sox in franchise valuation. If you're on the Cohen side of the ledger, a completely stripped down model (but lacking a viable public stadium plan) certainly would be attractive if you were willing to invest into your product to kick start things.

https://www.mlb.com/news/roki-sasaki-potential-teams-ranked Somehow missed the Orioles signing Charlie Morton, but Baltimore still in the mid 20s as a projected rotation. No mention of the Mariners here...but CLE instead.

https://d3data.sportico.com/MLBValuations2024/MLBValuationsList.html Crazy that he's already driven the value of the franchise down from $2.2 billion to $1.9 billion. This was once a consistently Top 8-12 valued franchise. Somehow the small market Padres have even passed them...by spending enough money to deliver Top 3-5 attendance on a consistent basis. And even more revenue is possible if they land Sasaki. http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=https://www.forbes.com/lists/mlb-valuations/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiKhMmg6OWKAxWmG9AFHV7dIqkQFnoECA0QAw&usg=AOvVaw3XtKuuBKQuFkF4q23GBMIa Here they are 15th at $2.05 billion...

Don't forget Michael Morse the one time 6'5-6'6" SS...

Plus you had Rowand and Crede...those were the big two of that time. Forgot Majewski, he had quite a long big league career as a reliever, just like Biddle and Rauch. James Baldwin flamed out pretty quickly but there's always the first half of that memorable 2000 season.

https://www.thebaseballcube.com/content/prospects_team_year/2000~7~BA/ Kip Wells, Jon Garland, Aaron Myette, Jason Stumm, Matt Ginter, Danny Wright, Lorenzo Barcelo, Mark Buehrle Also Jon Rauch...Baldwin, Jim Parque, Rocky Biddle, Kevin Beirne, Jon Snyder (LHP), Brian West

Cease's prospect profile was still quite strong...it just wasn't up there with Jimenez, quite. He (Dylan) already had the reputation for great stuff but not going deep (enough) in games. Giolito at different points was perceived to be the best RH pitching prospect in baseball...just like Kopech, but the bloom was off the roster for both Lucas and Reynaldo after their initial struggles in Washington at the major league level. Reynaldo ALWAYS HAD THE RAW STUFF, but tons of concern about his durability/frame and secondary stuff developing enough for him to be a consistent starter. But all these guys were clear top 100 prospects, whereas the White Sox still basically have just their Top 2. A number of people are salivating at Grant Taylor's potential, but he might as well be Alec Hansen or Erik Johnson as far as penciling him into a future rotation at this point.

With the Rays and A's playing in minor league facilities...that means our only real competition is that monstrosity of a stadium in MIAMI they've tried to tone down a bit under new ownership. Obviously the Pirates have a beautiful facility with PNC Park, but not the willpower on the part of ownership to even climb over a $100 million payroll.

Fangraphs' Payroll Resource has it as: 25. Cleveland $97 million 26. Pirates $79 million 27. White Sox $78 million 28. TB Rays $76 million 29. Athletics $70 million 30. Marlins $66 million But imagine if we can dump Benintendi and Robert...??? Bonus savings extravaganza. Vaughn at $6.4 million would be 3rd on the team for highest salaries. The highest guaranteed salaries after that are $1.95 million for Tauchman and $1.75 million for Slater at the current moment.

Build the center of the field (C, SS, 2B, CF) and move outward from there....the White Sox always seem to manage to do the opposite (corner OF spots, 1B/DH) with defensively limited players at nearly every position around the diamond.

https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/ Believe it or not, behind the AAA/Sacramento A's, and only ahead of the hapless Marlins at $65.5 million. 26. Pirates $79.4 million 27. A's $68 million 28. Tampa Bay Rays (also playing in the Yankees' minor league facility), $67.8 million 29. CHW $67.1 million 30. Marlins, $65.5 million AL East and AL West have six teams in the Top 15 of payrolls, and the AL/NL West have 8 teams (Rockies bringing up the rear). AL Central has the Twins at 18th ($141ish million), 20th, 21st and 25th (CLEVELAND). NL Central has only the Cubs at 13th in MLB, $172.5 million.

He was already working with the Mets, so surely they had their own list of Latin American targets already penciled in....

63-99 would be a miracle...but 50s for wins just feels a lot likelier with all the Central teams either standing pat or potentially improving.

Webb, Ray, Hicks, Harrison and Verlander the projected SFG rotation. Might be an indicator they're no longer a serious contender for Sasaki's services.

Well the Cubs would not be ideal if he's halfway as good as projected...

Well, you've listed about 30-40 pitchers in the last few days. Remember last year when everyone thought Leasure was the guy to secure the closer's role? Yes, the assumption for the future rotation was already "baked in" with Schultz/Smith/Mr. 90-91 MPH FB/Cannon/Burke/Taylor and whoever else you want to throw into the mix, but the point was that they're still below where they stood in 2018 or 2019 in terms of overall pitching talent (not to mention a lot of money was soon to be invested in the bullpen, which is much less likely to happen this time around, it's going to have to be produced internally, for the most part.)

The Mariners have the natural/historical connections and the Blue Jays went balls to the wall to go after Ohtani (almost getting him on a plane to Toronto)...so you'd have to think he would actually have MET with a team (at least once) before ever considering putting his signature to a contract.

Mystery team involved in Sasaki sweepstakes. Jan. 7: Mystery team involved in Sasaki sweepstakes? The Sasaki sweepstakes are entering the home stretch, with eight days to go before the start of the 2025 international amateur signing period on Jan. 15 and 16 days remaining before the right-hander’s posting window is due to close on Jan. 23. We last heard from Sasaki’s camp on Dec. 30, when agent Joel Wolfe told reporters that the coveted pitcher had returned home to Japan to mull over his decision after meeting with teams in Los Angeles. To this point, Sasaki has met with seven known clubs: the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, Giants, Rangers and Padres. However, those might not be the only teams Sasaki is considering. Wolfe said that 20 teams submitted presentations when Sasaki was posted by his NPB team, the Chiba Lotte Marines, on Dec. 9, and MLB Network insider Jon Paul Morosi reported Tuesday that at least one other club beyond the aforementioned seven has spoken with the hurler. While it's unknown which other team (or teams) was granted the opportunity to speak with Sasaki, the Mariners, Red Sox, Phillies and Blue Jays were all previously mentioned among the likely contenders to sign him. mlb.com Down to final 7 or 8...