Archive for Contracts/Economics

I am far from an arbitration expert, but the book on the process over the years is that it is one to be avoided for several reasons. For one thing, there is no baby splitting, meaning that if you lose, the other side’s number wins, and nothing in between. Yes, this is probably intended as […]

Someone has taken the trouble to calculate the tax revenue to the State of New York by virtue of the big salaries being handed out to Sabathia, Teixeira, and Burnett, as well as existing obligations to Jeter and A-Rod: Here’s another way to add revenues to the hard-pressed state treasury: have pro games played in […]

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If, at around 9:30 this morning, you did a Google News search for “baseball,” these two articles would have showed up right at the top: 1. “Yankees’ spending could hurt baseball“; and 2. “The Marlins, not the Yankees, are Killing Baseball.” Hurm. The first article is an editorial from a somewhat venerable newspaper of record […]

A Red Sox fan urges folks to hold their fire when going after the Yankees’ offseason largess: As a Bosox fan, the most important thing each summer aside from Boston winning is New York tanking, and it’s my hope that despite the influx of new talent, the aging Jeter, Posada, Damon and Rivera (the best […]

. . .that the Yankees payroll on Opening Day 2008 was $209 million. It’s also worth noting that even with the additions of Teixeira, Sabathia, and Burnett, the Yankees’ 2009 payroll obligations — including signing bonuses — stand at roughly $201-205 million, give or take. Yes, that will change some as they fill out the […]

Maury Brown has crunched the numbers in the wake of the Teixeira signing and has found all kinds of fun financial factoids. Among them: The total base salaries of A-Rod ($32 million), Jeter ($20 million), Teixeira ($20 million), and Sabathia ($14 million) for 2009 will be $82.5 million, or more than the Opening Day payrolls […]

Why prospects may be more valuable than ever.

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Boras. Tellem. Greenberg. Hendricks. Levinson. Saberhagen? Bret Saberhagen, the two-time Cy Young Award winner from Cleveland High in Reseda, has just joined the agent business. West Coast Sports Management, the Pasadena-based firm headed by former Dodgers general manager Dan Evans, hired Saberhagen this week, and his primary responsibilities will be to evaluate and recruit pitchers. […]