johnnythejet

Pittsburgh sports fan. Wood bat rec league legend. Just here to talk sports tbh.

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@OnePissedYinzer 19 states plus DC have minimum wages of 15+, this isn't some theoretical economics issue. It is proven and is very easy to see what will happen to prices if you just look. Nothing scary or bad will happen.

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@dubvfan1232 Is Cam Cook eligible to come back?

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@Flexrainy @Veno202 "Clearly" based on what? His babip was .304 so basically average. His xwoba was .350 which was higher than Jeffers .344. And I see nothing in his savant page that points to a major dropoff. Lastly, the Pirates obviously were very high on him to trade Bednar for him.

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@Flexrainy @Veno202 Jeffers has been bad defensively for the past 3 years (-16 drs, -18 frv) and while Jeffers played almost twice as many games (92 vs 47) they had pretty similar results but Flores was a little better (.858 OPS vs .814) and Flores had 34 hr/150 PA, vs 19 for Jeffers.

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@MikeAsti11 And all 75 mil would come from evenly sharing television deals, instead of the dodgers getting over 300 million dollars more than the Pirates as currently constructed.

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@erik_halterman No it isn't. Revenue sharing is absolutely part of the cap discussion. Why does a salary cap work in other sports? Because revenue sharing allows Packers, Chiefs, Penguins, Thunder, etc to spend up to the rest of the league. You can't have a functional cap without revenue share.

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@TJStats I betcha that the mlbpa could get that 1.5 mil minimum if they conceded to having a cap.

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@erik_halterman @HitterishFB No, because a cap needs a floor and a floor needs revenue sharing. It takes all 3. You can't have a floor without knowing exactly how to divide all streams of revenue.

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@erik_halterman @HitterishFB No, they aren't. They aren't signaling anything but what a floor could be with equal revenue sharing. You are missing, intentionally or unintentionally, the main point.

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@StatlineScout No Bubba Chandler? Just 1 year removed from being the #1 pitching prospect in the game. 3.97 fip, 3 fwar so far in 185 innings, just scratching the surface of his potential.

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@KodyDuncanPGH For everyone mentioning the MLBPA war chest, it is 415 mil, for 1200 represented players, so less than 350k per person. The owners 2 bil war chest, for 30 people, is about 67 mil per person, or about 200x per person.

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@AlexJStumpf Those 7 of the last 12 also had an average payroll ranking of 8th highest according to spotrac, with Brewers included. Yea its cool the 4th highest and 5th highest (Rangers and Cubs, respectively) won, but don't try to ignore the problem. You're smarter than that.

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@JasonBallard1 @KodyDuncanPGH Thats simply not true.

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@dead_baseball I'm kinda surprised the White Sox are on the left. They keep costs way down but are in the 3rd biggest market in the country.

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@crissanchezfan The Pirates have a good core and a good farm system. The Angels have had 11 straight losing seasons, 8 straight for the Rockies, and there isn't an end in sight for either team, about to tear it down and have poor farms.

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@VanSky_fam A cap system has a floor. And a floor means expanded revenue sharing. It is all linked together. Pro cap is pro revenue share.

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@donboscomd Bobby Witt will almost certainly opt out of that contract in 2030.

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@jeffbatesx Well, unless said merchandise was purchased directly from the club store in stadium, its divided amongst all 30 clubs evenly. If I buy a Brewers jersey online right now, they get 1/30th of that money.

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@LawsonsCreek @NoahW_25 Feel free to look at attendance figures from when they were a playoff team from '13 to '15, or from the 90s teams with Bonds. Or even the 70s world series team...they never had great attendance.