Yoosh

I think what he's trying to say is it's better to have 6 above average players at 10-12mil each then 3 "stars" at 20-25 mil each.

This is what I'm getting at... I know that I picked two teams with large discrepancies in spending. But this post hit's the nail on the head. Where do we get our number of an acceptable payroll amount? It factors greatly into the feelings of Mauers contract because at 125 million his contract doesn't hurt the team as much when he put's up a 2011 performance. But this post isn't about if we're getting our money from Mauer (get over the contract people, he's performing up to his pay this year and Yes I wish every year could be '09 but it isn't going to happen). -------------------------------------------------------------- As far as paying for the stadium... People just need to grin and bear it. Because ALL professional sports franchises have their city over a barrel when it comes to stadium funding. It's sad but it's the reality these days, if you want pro sports the owner is more than likely going to make a profit off of the taxpayers...

So there has been a lot of talk lately of payroll. Max payroll etc etc.... What I came across is a few discrepancies in Revenue vs Payroll. Using these two references listed below to produce our revenue and payroll figures (and profit). The two teams I used are the twins and the phillies. 2011 Revenue and profit Twins: 213 million (26.5 million in profit/income) Phillies: 239 million (8.9 million in profit/income) 2012 Payroll figures Twins: 94 million Phillies: 173 million How is it with only 20 million more in revenue the phillies can achieve a payroll $79 million higher and still turn a 9 million dollar profit? To calculate operating expenses I used the following calculation: Total revenue - Payroll - Profit(income) Phillies $239mil - $173mil - $9mil = $57mil in operating expenses. Twins $213mil - $94mil - $26.5mil = $92.5mil in operating expenses So the twins use $35 million more a year in operating expenses than the phillies do? Is their (the phillies) stadium deal that much more rich or are the twins that cheap? Is my math out to left field? My level of understanding in this subject is minimal at best. Hopefully one of the better educated posters out there could help me understand if I'm crazy or my train of thought is correct and we the Minnesota fans are getting a bum deal? http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/33/baseball-valuations-11_land.html http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/salaries/_/name/min/minnesota-twins P.S. Hello from Italy!