Wolff’s Satisfaction
Athletics owner Lew Wolff said in a telephone interview that it gives him an “acute sense of satisfaction” when he looks at the standings and sees his team ahead of much richer teams in the playoff hunt.
“If we were spending more, I probably wouldn’t have the same sense of satisfaction,” he said with a laugh. “Spending more would not necessarily make us more competitive. Just because a guy is making 10 times as much as one of our guys, that doesn’t mean he’s 10 times better.”
‘Arbitrage Opportunities’
Rays outfielder Sam Fuld said it has become more challenging for small-payroll clubs to find an advantage.
“I don’t think it’s any one thing,” Fuld, 30, a two-time All-American while studying economics at Stanford University, said in an interview. “They are continually looking to find market inefficiencies. Those are few and far between now.
“The A’s certainly capitalized on arbitrage opportunities 10 years ago, but that gap has shrunk and leaguewide, teams are just more efficient, more aware of small ways that you can improve your organization, even the big-market teams like the Bostons and New Yorks.”
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1. Gamingboy Posted: September 14, 2012 at 03:32 PM (#4236041)It does seem a little weird to call out a team tied for first.
Click rates! Click rates! Please try to play along. Facts have nothing to do with this.
"as Yankees Struggle to Stay 15 Games up on the Crappy Red Sox"
Nothing satisfies like a pocket full of free cash, does it Lew?
There's an easy way to cut the A's off from revenue sharing: let them move to San Jose.
"But that D!" 0.1 WAR.
If MLB salaries were kept completely confidential, would A's fans enjoy this season less? Would Yankee fans enjoy it more?
Obviously in such a world you'd have some idea the Yankees were spending more, they have more star players with 6+ years of experience, news of A-Rod's condo sale price, and you'd presume that Sabathia, Texiera, etc. didn't go to NY for pay cuts. But you'd have no hard numbers, probably no idea of the magnitude that the Yankees payroll advantage.
Funny how the Moneyball worm turned on him.
And yet over and over and over, I have seen RSox fans quibble as if some great victory has been achieved if a guy lives up to his contract, and sell their children rather than get caught on the tail end of a guy getting older.
I've even seen people say "The Sox should NEVER offer a 99 mill+ contract again."
October, 1st. 2012.
Henry: "Well Larry, they bought our 'August Surprise' hook, line and sinker...of course going 5-40 has kind of taken the edge off that."
You're crazy. Red Sox fans don't like overpaying because it means there's a budget and the more you spend on bad players the less you can spend on good ones.
Eh, I think there's plenty of Red Sox fans that gripe about overpaid players, and not for team budgetary reasons--or because they care about Henry's bank account. It just pisses them off if someone's making a shitton of money and not doing a very good job.
I'd like to a repeat of '89, though with less earthquakes.
fewer
(but who's counting higher than 1?)
Fine.
There's probably an earthquake almost every day on those faults, just very low on the Ricther.
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