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  1. Mr. Brooks
    I'll be pleasantly surprised if the Twins do indeed stick with just an 11 man pitching staff. But, I'll believe it when I see it.
  2. Mr. Brooks
    Teams don't like to make specific offers that can be used to leverage against another team. Of course, eventually an actual offer has to be made.
  3. Mr. Brooks
    Not to mention the long term profitability that being viewed as a champion gives a team. There is a reason why the Yankees bring in vastly more revenue than the Mets. They have a championship pedigree. Everywhere in the world you see Yankees garb, you won't find many people outside of Queens wearing Mets gear.
  4. Mr. Brooks
    Who are you listing as #4 starters? I see a 2 and a 3 (Berrios and Santana), then a whole bunch of #5 types. I guess those who think Gibson's second half is more trend than mirage could include him as a #4, but I'm not a believer.
  5. Mr. Brooks
    A #4 starter that makes the league minimum has a lot of value. It allows you to not have to spend $13-$18 million on one in FA.
  6. Mr. Brooks
    Agree. I thought that was the difference in the game.
  7. Mr. Brooks
    Well, I have to admit, I underestimated the Eagles. They played an unbelievable game. Congrats to them, but not their fans.
  8. Mr. Brooks
    I'm talking about really good players. Not players whose playing time would be in doubt.
  9. Mr. Brooks
    I still don't think it works in baseball. Unlike the NFL, where guys play right after being drafted, the investment of milb development is a huge part of baseball. Teams would have little chance of recouping that investment.
  10. Mr. Brooks
    The owners should be able to do that. So should the players. That's what bargaining is for. People complaining about millionaire players wanting more only seem to agree with half of that though, and I don't understand it. If the market can bear more, they'll get more. If it can't, they won't. There is really no need to bash them for trying to get the most earning potential as they can (you're not, but I assume you were responding to me, and I was responding to those who were). People, I'd hope, attempt the same in every career. When it's a middle class worker, it's mostly seen as righteous. When it's millionaires people call them crybabies, and mock their ability to feed their family. And it's not just any millionaire. I don't think people react the same way if it's a surgeon or software executive. But, most of us played sports at some point. So, some say "it's just a game! What obscene money!" Ok, sure, in that sense, they don't really contribute much to society, compared to a doctor or even a banker. But, neither do the owners. And, it's not the players, or the owners fault that they are making millions and billions off a game. It's the fans. There is demand. That is how business works for the most part. If people stopped giving their money, the prices would have to go down to attract customers, then salary and profits would go down. I just don't get the resentment. It's one thing to resent obscene profits for things we need. Food, healthcare, housing, whatever. Nobody needs baseball. Who cares how much they make? Just eliminate yourself from the demand if it annoys you (again, not you specifically). Nobody should be disrespected for trying to get their fair share of the profits. To someone making just above minimum wage mopping floors, the bank president making 250k seems obscene. But that guy, if he tries to leverage a raise, is probably just seeing more profits coming into the bank, he's likely not being greedy. And, to someone making pennies in a third world sweatshop, they probably think it's pathetic that the guy making 8 bucks an hour mopping floors is complaining.
  11. Mr. Brooks
    Couldn't it just as easily be construed as billionaire owners whining that their employees want more of their billions? It's all relative. People making minimum wage mopping the floor at burger king, driving a 20 year old beater might say the same thing about you "whining" about the price of a vehicle they could never afford.
  12. Mr. Brooks
    But if the player doesn't want to resign, they lose them. After spending a high draft pick and years of investment on them, with little chance at any payoff for their investment. No thanks. To steal Craig's sentiment in a different thread, baseball will be fine without me, but I'd no longer be paying attention to it.
  13. Mr. Brooks
    Universal FA at age 25: A team spends a top pick on a player, spends 4 or 5 years and many resources developing them, then loses them right when they have a chance to be good?
  14. Mr. Brooks
    The problem I see with this, is that if the bulk of the players salary is determined by performance, only the desirable cities will attract top free agents; New York, Boston, DC, Miami, LA, San Francisco, etc. What is Kansas City going to be able to offer to put them over any of those teams, if they can't offer more money?
  15. Mr. Brooks
    And teams that draft and develop players should be the ones to reap the benefits. I don't want to see small and mid market teams being nothing more than farm systems. I'm all for players making more money. Make all 6 years ARB years then. I don't want to see the Twins draft and develop Royce Lewis, only to watch him go to the Yankees at age 25.
  16. Mr. Brooks
    Seth, I get the feeling you don't like the Patriots. Two years in a row you've picked against them now. This isn't the Vikings. This isn't Mike Zimmer. And this isn't Case Keenum. We made the Eagles look a lot better than they are. Pats:28 Eagles:13
  17. Mr. Brooks
    Who is asking for a 10 year deal?
  18. Mr. Brooks
    How many times has an impact player been traded in May?
  19. Mr. Brooks
    I wouldn't expect a full season output to match what those 3 did in the second half, no. Except maybe Buxton, maybe. I also don't expect Gibson to match his second half performance either.
  20. Mr. Brooks
    Gibson is not a free agent after this year. He has one year of team control remaining.
  21. Mr. Brooks
    What was their first half pythag?
  22. Mr. Brooks
    Well of the major publications that have released their prospect rankings, only BA has Rooker ahead of Gordon. And even there it's by 1 spot (92/93). So, I don't think it's accurate at all to say that Rooker needs to be ahead of Gordon.
  23. Mr. Brooks
    If Lewis can't stick at SS, he'd move to the OF, not third base. Perhaps his best tool is wasted at third base.
  24. Mr. Brooks
    Sorry, but that's just not a realistic trade package for Archer. Granite is not going to be a starting outfielder. His best shot is to bounce around as a 4th/5th OF'er, or AAAA depth. And TB has no interest in Hughes, not even if we ate the salary.
  25. Mr. Brooks
    Aside from Boston and New York, how often are baseball stadiums filled to capacity during the regular season? I think there is room to go down before demand overtakes supply. More likely, IMO, teams find a tipping point where all the empty seats are more than made up by the inflated tickets that are sold. I'm not sure where that number lies, but I'd imagine it's in the 75-80% capacity range.
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