Archive for Contracts/Economics

I was going to write something long and critical about Ryan Howard asking for $18 million in arbitration, but then Melky Cabrera’s crazier arbitration demand came along. Darn, it now seems that Melky and the Yankees have come to an agreement, thereby mooting all of the snark I had stored up overnight. Still, this is […]

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The guys at River Ave. Blues have a really sharp idea about how to fix the free agent compensation system so as to raise the price of free agents for teams like the Yankees and make life hurt less for the teams that, though no fault of their own, lose players to teams like the […]

Not all of the mainstream press accepts the owners’ recent whining about salary caps at face value, and today the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bruce Jenkins takes a whack at it. A key thing to remember about salary caps: To make the Jason Kidd-to-Dallas deal work last year, the Mavericks had to re-sign Keith Van Horn, […]

I’m not always the best judge of these things, but Nick Markakis’ new deal seems to be pretty decent for both sides: The Orioles have reached a six-year, $66.1 million contract extension with right fielder Nick Markakis, according to baseball sources. He will be in Baltimore on Wednesday to take a physical and sign the […]

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Approximating the draft pick value of a Type A free agent.

Are these high salaries really justified?

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Tony Massarotti does a post-mortem on the Red Sox’ unsuccessful pursuit of Mark Teixeira. Nothing all that shocking or new here, but then he says something interesting: 5. Can Boras and the Red Sox still do business? The answer to this question is probably yes, but one can only wonder. Part of the problem is […]