Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe sheds some light on why the Yanks are reported to prefer Raul Ibanez over Johnny Damon. It simply comes down to cost:
5. Raul Ibanez, OF/DH, free agent – He is a Yankee target over Johnny Damon because he is coming in at a more reasonable [...]
If you’ve ever debated someone online or in person about trading a player coming off a bad year, you probably have heard the phrase “You don’t sell when the stock is down”. I certainly have. It’s nice and short, easy to understand and sounds authoritative. But as is the case with many of life’s other [...]
Prince Fielder Worth His Weight (just not in projected WAR)
By William Juliano On January 25, 2012 · 9 Comments · In Business of Baseball, Hot Stove, The Opposition
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Every time a player signs a mega-money deal, there seems to be a very common kneejerk reaction, particularly among saber-friendly analysts. The typical response is to run to fangraphs.com for the player’s WAR-based dollar value and then, using projections, conclude that by the [...]
Finally the most exciting part of the offseason, salary arbitration, has arrived. Teams and agents get to place values on cost-controlled players too young to get free agency, and if they can’t reach an agreement, submit their offers to an objective panel of arbitrators. The Yankees recently have reached agreements with several of their important [...]
Much digital ink has been spilled about the Yankees’ 2014 payroll, and their possible goal of getting below the $189 million luxury tax threshold to greatly reduce their luxury tax and revenue sharing obligations. In order to get their payroll below that threshold for 2011, the Yankees would likely have to employ some measure of [...]
ESPN’s Buster Olney recently had an interesting chart up where he looked at the value that clubs received on the largest contracts that have even been issued. Here’s the list:
Dollars spent per win above replacement in completed $100 million contracts, through 2011:
Player Contract WAR $/WAR Albert Pujols 7-year/$100M 59.0 $1.70M Alex Rodriguez 10-year/$252M [...]
About two weeks ago Albert Pujols and the Angels shocked the baseball universe with the news that the perennial MVP was changing teams, coasts and leagues for a tidy $254 million. Everyone knows that Albert has 254 million excellent reasons to make this move, but the Angels’ motivations were murkier. Pujols is [...]
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A bunch of details of the new labor detail were released earlier this week. And as someone who’s on the record as a hater of all things CBA-related, I have to say that I’m liking a lot of the [...]
(The following is being syndicated from The Captain’s Blog).
The last five seasons haven’t been very kind to the Mets. Whether on the field or in the board room, the team has been besieged by a myriad of unfortunate circumstances ever since Carlos Beltran was mesmerized by a Adam Wainwright curve ball to [...]
Earlier this week Joel Sherman, RAB and our very own EJ Fagan all reported that baseball’s new collective bargaining agreement may finally succeed at one of the game’s least achievable goals. It may successfully constrain the bloated Yankee payroll. This revelation prompted lots of speculation about what life would be life for the Yankees [...]
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