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Dodgers Remain Baseball’s Top Spender as Yankee Dollars Continue to Decline

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, CBA, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees on December 22, 2015 | 1 Comment »

Forget about Dodger Blue. Green is the new primary color in Los Angeles. The Dodgers may have come up empty handed in the postseason, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. In 2015, the organization spent over $290 million on player costs, which, combined with a luxury tax bill of nearly $44 billion, easily made […]

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Roster Manipulation Doing Disservice to Game; Time for MLB to Crack Down on Super Two Abuses

Posted in Baseball, CBA, MLB, Roster Analysis, Yankees on March 21, 2014 | 2 Comments »

Major League Baseball is a meritocracy, except when it comes to blue chip prospects. Instead of promoting the most talented young players when they are ready for the big leagues, many teams conveniently wait a few extra months. These clubs usually attribute the delay to “seasoning”, but in such cases, their patience isn’t a virtue. […]

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New Japanese Posting Agreement Driven by Small Market Concerns but Could Benefit Big Spenders Instead

Posted in Baseball, CBA, Hot Stove, International, Yankees on December 5, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball have reached a new posting agreement apparently designed for one purpose: thwart the Yankees and other free spenders from signing Masahiro Tanaka. However, a careful examination of the details suggests the resolution could come back to haunt the small market teams who reportedly pushed for its implementation. Under […]

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Bud Selig’s Changing View of Baseball’s Best Interests

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, Baseball History, CBA, MLB, PEDs, Yankees on July 30, 2013 | 2 Comments »

Bud Selig is about to use the nuclear option on Alex Rodriguez. Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement is mostly very specific in its delegation of power, but there is a broad clause that grants the commissioner authority to mete out justice that he, alone, believes is in the best interest of the game. Since Judge Kenesaw […]

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Robinson Cano Teams With Jay-Z, but What Is Hal Steinbrenner’s State of Mind?

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, CBA, Hal Steinbrenner, MLB, Yankees, tagged on April 3, 2013 | 2 Comments »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstriped Bible) Everyone has been reading the tea leaves since Robinson Cano replaced baseball super agent Scot Boras with an agency fronted by music mogul Jay-Z. Most have interpreted the move to mean Cano desperately wants to the remain in the Bronx, so much so that ditching Boras indicates […]

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Will WBC Pride Give Way to CBA Greed?

Posted in Baseball, CBA, Draft, International, MLB, WBC on March 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

(The following was originally published at SB*Nation’s Pinstriped Bible) Leave it to Bud Selig to crash his own party. By all but the most cynical accounts, the World Baseball Classic has been a success, and, in no region has that been more true than the Caribbean. As Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic get ready to […]

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Making Sense, and Cents, of an Extension for Robinson Cano

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, CBA, Free Agents, Hal Steinbrenner, MLB, Yankees, tagged on February 9, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Should the Yankees try to sign Robinson Cano to an extension before the season? Following comments from Hal Steinbrenner that alluded to preliminary negotiations with the All Star second baseman, that question has been foremost on the minds of the team’s legion of fans. The best answer is the Yankees should have re-signed Cano last […]

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