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On a more serious note, I wonder what it would take to get Dan Uggla. I could see him playing a serviceable 1B. His most similars on bbref though are not... good.
Seriously, the Marlins are going to clear $50M easy from centralized revenue (national TV, MLBAM) and revenue sharing. They can afford to keep all 18.
Nah- at least one if not two years too soon.
Marlin payroll history per USAToday:
1993 $18,196,545
1994 $20,275,500
1995 $23,670,000
1996 $30,079,500
1997 $47,753,000
1998 $33,434,000
1999 $15,150,000
2000 $19,870,000
2001 $35,562,500
2002 $41,979,917
2003 $48,750,000
2004 $42,143,042
2005 $60,408,834
2006 $14,998,500
2007 $30,507,000
2008 $21,811,500
The Marlin's likely 2009 payroll will be within the range that Loria/Sampson have been willing to tolerate for a year or two before now, plus it looks like they are getting the New Stadium they wanted-
What's the genrally accepted goal for payroll/revenue, 45-50%?
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/33/biz_baseball08_The-Business-Of-Baseball_Revenue.html
as a red sox fan, i love the marlins spending all of the MFY money. hell, they could just keep it and release all of these guys.
edit: i know they're spending red sox money as well, but not quite as much. and yanks fans have this to think about: if they weren't so damn successful they wouldn't have so much money in the first place to give to loria et al.
Do you know what makes it even more fun - thinking that it's actually Yankee Redneck's money that they're spending. I like to think that whatever he spends on tickets, officially licensed merchandise, etc., is funneled straight to the the poor and downtrodden Lorias and Glasses of MLB.
Yeah, but that's just a matter of statistical probability.
It makes sense. If I told you to guess the position of a player and I told you he was a late-bloomer whose best offensive skill was power... that sounds like a catcher without a doubt.
First base.
Especially since he was using a catcher's mitt to play second base in the All-Star Game.
it's because the positional adjustment seems to be off:
At 423 games at 2b and 2 games at DH, Uggla's positional score is 131.
Through age 27, Wilkins had does nothing but catch, therefore his positional score should be 240 (and based upon career totals it should be 232)
240-131 = 109
Uggla's and Wilkins' similarity score should be no higher than 891, but BBREF is showing 964 through age 27.
So either BBREF is not using the positional adjustment, or is using different figures than the ones posted in their glossary.
Because most other owners have stumbled into franchises that generate a significant amount of local revenue.
Everyone else has taxpayer subsidized stadiums that create enormous revenue streams that will shrink if they skimp on the on-field product.
In addition to what Swedish Chef said, I thought that sports teams weren't always run to maximize profits in the short term because the team's value will increase if it is a popular, winning team. Also, sometimes a rich nut (Roman Abramovich, Mark Cuban, George Steinbrenner) buys a team and mostly just wants to have fun with it.
Even weirder are Jason Kendall's comp's on B-ref. There are no catchers and is almost exclusively middle infielders.
Shocking.
That would never happen in any other industry.
Who?
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