Brock Beauchamp
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Great job staying up late through these negotiations, Ted. I couldn't hack it anymore after 11pm or so. -
I'd put Opening Day happening on time at over 50% right now, which is at least 49% higher than I had the number yesterday.
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The players don't have a lot to lose here, though, the owners have all but ensured a prolonged fight. The players conceded a bunch of things while as of yesterday owners haven't made an offer that even keeps up with inflation, much less the revenue growth of the sport. If the owners aren't even offering a continuation of the status quo in regards to payroll vs. revenue, there's no reason not to dig in your heels and wait them out, particularly if the media continues to slant this situation very much against owners, as they mostly have to this point (and for good reason).
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I completely agree with Tom about this:
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Great. Just great. I mean, we all saw this coming but it still sucks to see it play out. Owners barely budge on anything and now threaten a month of baseball games.
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Sounds like Jeter wanted to build a winner but this morning he picked up the team stationary, saw the logo at the top of it, and said…
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Dan is a great Twitter follow.
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Romney: "Morons, I have morons on my team"
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in The Sports Bar
On the subject of Romney, this is a great read. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/02/romney-putin-ukraine-invasion/622941/ -
This got an actual LOL out of me. Vicious.
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I love the bits about how Manfred's most unifying feature is player and fan hatred of him. People blast Selig but outside of the contraction nonsense, I don't think he was a terrible commissioner. Selig legit likes baseball. I never get that impression from Manfred. He seems to think bludgeoning the players is his real job, not growing the sport and protecting it.
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Ken Rosenthal roasts Manfred in this piece and it's beautiful. He's a terrible commissioner and I hope this mess is his ultimate downfall. https://theathletic.com/3152105/2022/02/27/rosenthal-rob-manfred-on-course-to-fulfill-his-own-doomsday-prophesy-for-baseball/?redirected=1
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Frankly, arbitration SHOULD start immediately. The sport is much better off if Luis Arraez makes $2m in his second year and Mike Trout makes $32m a year instead of $40m a year. I get why the MLBPA dropped their demand for universal arbitration after two years but it's still disappointing.
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To put that in perspective, from what I saw of the last offer, that means the league moved around 0.4% with that $1m offer. Inflation, in its best years, is triple that number. This year, inflation is over ten times that. But yes, someone please tell me again how the players are the problem here.
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Ugh. I wish the players would concede a little on the CBT threshold and instead pursue a hard salary floor in return. Teams like the Guardians, Pirates, and Rays are worse for the sport and its players than a soft salary cap.
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I can't believe it's even happening. How the **** did we get here?
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Yep, tell me again how serious MLB is about these negotiations.
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New Twins Daily feature - Top Prospect Tracker
Brock Beauchamp replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Minnesota Twins Talk
That's high praise and thank you for wondering about that. But frankly, if people want to copy this format and use it elsewhere, more power to them. I'm more interested in improving baseball content than making a buck, especially in this particular situation (we have a massive announcement coming in the next few weeks, unrelated to this but indicative of where the five of us are taking the concept of Twins Daily). -
Twins Daily 2022 Top Prospects: #1 Austin Martin
Brock Beauchamp replied to Nick Nelson's topic in Twins Minor League Talk
Yep, Larnach "graduated" out of prospect status with 301 plate appearances in 2021. -
That really sucks and I'm sorry you're suffering from this needless situation.
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Labor is an operating expense, though, not profit. Labor goes into the same bucket as stadium expense and paying the players is no different than paying the gate workers, the numbers are just much larger.
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Oh, the Braves definitely had a better season than most due to their championship, I was merely pointing out that they also had issues that cut into their profits early in the season. They weren’t maxed out like a typical championship team would be in a normal year.
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You're using profit, not revenue. Negotiations are based on player percentage of revenue, not percentage of profit (which varies quite a bit and can be easily manipulated by outsourcing large sums of money to shell corporations or handing exorbitant salaries to specific people).
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And let's not forget they operated much of the season with Covid-related caps on attendance. This was a "down" year for baseball due to the pandemic.
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Here are hard numbers why players are angry at ownership. Owning a baseball team is a wildly profitable venture and we know that for certain, as the Atlanta Braves have to open their books now.
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This won't launch officially until Monday but I wanted to give you forum users a sneak peak ahead of time. This is really cool and I've been working on it all winter. Every month, we're going to update the stats splits, scouting reports, and rankings to reflect movement within the system. It's also a really handy one-stop-shop for everything happening with the Twins top prospects with related articles and videos for each prospect automatically populating as we add more content about the prospect. Also, there's a handy desktop widget located in the right sidebar that will feature a single prospect who had a note-worthy moment, a great week, or maybe an injury. Check it out and let me know your thoughts! https://twinsdaily.com/minnesota-twins-top-prospects/2022/
