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An absurdist comedy show disguised as a St. Louis Cardinals podcast. LOLMets & Embrace The Suck
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He’s our 27 year-old future
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Our SOON TO BE 4th catcher
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Is there a reason you’re leaving out Pozo…?
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Oil Marmol looking over an 80-grade CF with generational power: Yes, but can he CATCH?
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Jimmy Crooks and OOTP legend Yohel Pozo to the rescue
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If he doesn’t and they still carry 4 catchers we’ll set all our Patreon money on fire
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Yes, comrade
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Likely promoting from within and anticipating picking up depth in a trade. Or just stupid.
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Vote for 10
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Yes! Prior to 2020 they never finished higher than 20th in payroll. Their attendance is higher and they have playoff appearances in 3 of the last 5 years—even though they’ve reduced payroll for this season they’re still sporting a $170 million staff.
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Pirates have literally been paying most of their player salaries with tickets and food concessions, this is not counting TV money or revenue sharing. They 100% could support a $125 million payroll and be a better team.
www.post-gazette.com/sports/pirat....
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Current MLB arb is that both sides submit a proposal and a panel rules which side wins. NHL arb allows an arbiter to reward a figure in the middle, or higher in some cases.
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Dodgers are a great org that spends and makes a lot of money. Good for them!
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Yes, that would be more ideal. Baseball’s arbitration process would, in my mind, benefit more by getting rid of the winner-take-all ruling. It’s there to encourage compromise, but I think it serves ownership moreso than the player. The NHL’s arbitration ruling is something that could be copied.
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Arbitration could use an overhaul along with service time. Even with those changes it’d be hard to stop teams from service time manipulation, best practice is through reward—supplemental draft picks.
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Any chance you can get us and @worstfansjosh.bsky.social @worstfanstom.bsky.social added?
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IMHO, the MLBPA has sold out its younger members. Min salary should be at least $1.2M. A salary floor of $120-150M would likely push even more $ into those players' pockets. Instead, they play for relative peanuts during their prime with a "hope" of making big bucks in their 30s. It's a bad system.
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HEY! We agree on that, a salary floor should be implemented, especially with MLB’s current revenue sharing system—which will change as orgs move away from RSNs. And yeah, players are often called up later than when they should and spend their prime years making minimum and arb dollars!
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Okay, but now we’ve moved from the Yankees and Dodgers to 20 other teams. Like I’m not disagreeing with you with how MLB deploys their business model—look at the disastrous Boras clients last offseason—it’s just a lot of greedy MLB owners horde that money and make no real effort to better their team
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It is! It’s been very prevalent the last few years. Teams can earn the right to be cheapskates if they’re also smart—i.e. the Brewers—it’s also shortening careers for players in their 30s. We should probably readdress how we do service time and arbitration in the league too!
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You’re sort of missing my point that teams can afford to spend significantly more to field a better team. If Soto is off the board, what stops the Pirates from going after Schwarber, Thomas, Hoskins, Diaz, Naylor, or Ozuna? Are you expecting the Yankees and Dodgers to outbid on all of them.
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In addition to all that, player salaries have continually risen in the last 20 years albeit from mega contracts. Baseball’s “middle class” hasn’t seen much of that sharp increase, however I don’t think giving teams any easy out not to spend money is going to help them.
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A lot of MLB teams usually have anywhere between $50-80 million extra cash from revenue sharing & TV contracts. The Pittsburgh Gazette did a story on Bob Nutting that showed the Pirates essentially paid for their labor with concession deals and pocketed the rest. These teams have the money, dude lol
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I took it as a public declaration that he wants a trade too without having to go public about it, if that makes any sense.