The new CBA will definitly make the drafting only approach much harder.
I agree the player agents will try to get a lot but I think reality will slap them in the face after 2 years of not signing their clients and forcing them back into the draft.

What I am unsure of is WHO the new CBA will affect the most.
It may not change what the top 1st rounders get all that much but have a much more significant impact on players in rounds 4-10. The Top guys will probably get the same but the result will be no money left to sign those later picks who your not really sure of and will have to take less so the team can give the earlier picks more.

I doubt highly any team will risk going overslot by more than the taxable amount because if it means losing picks then it makes much more sense to not sign those late not so sure picks this year than it is to lose top picks next year!

So all those 4th-10th round picks are going to lose the most in this new CBA. And the teams will actually net fewer overall picks if they are picking at the top!

But We will see what actually happens. I’m willing to bet there is some loophole that will be exploited to make the entire rule moot!

Really he added only 50 Mil to his payroll in total. And most of that won’t kick in till two years from now and the fact he has no trade limitations he can easily get out of those deals.

He will have roughly the same Salary as us when all is said and done (future signings not included) and have a top All Star Pitcher SS and Closer!

In fact if Sandy truly is going to succeed here the plan he is implementing will look just like it!
Get down to nothing spending, lose a lot and make good picks and then go and buy the talent that gives you credibility to lead them.

Problem is it takes a lot longer than 4 or 5 years to do that, takes almost a decade of picks before you get there and then only if your really good with the picks!

Get your own 5 guys up here to form a core and then bring in a specific guy or two, not the other way around.

But, as long as the subject was brought up…..back loaded contracts are fine when the player continues to perform well for the length of his contract. Truthfully, in most cases a player with a long term deal is past his prime by the end of the contract not too mention the possibility of a serious injury that comes up. In a city like NY, that player often ends up being hated by the final year of his deal.

The problem with these deals is that all too often you end up paying huge dollars to a dog like Bobby Bonilla who didn’t earn his money in any year of his contract. I wonder if we are still paying the likes of Moe Vaughn too?

Unfortunately, far too many players with long term deals will often lose a bit of their “hunger” once they have the comfort of that long contract .

Back-loaded contracts, in their proper context, can be very valuable tools. Both the Angels & Marlins leveraged this principle to bring in two players at once, rather than bringing in just one player with homogenized annual payments. Very smart.

Sometimes, back-loaded contracts can blow up in your face. Look no further than Johan Santana’s contract – the Mets are on the hook for, what, somewhere b/w 23-24m this year. He’s injured, so some of this $$$ will be defrayed by insurance. Regardless, when a back-loaded contract such as Johan’s in coupled with a large contract such as Jason Bay’s, the results can be devastating.

In this sense, the Marlins are at greater risk than the Angels, as I believe Reyes & Buehrle represent a greater health risk than Pujols and Wilson. Taken a step further, the Marlins will be absolutely screwed if they deal away Hanley Ramirez and Reyes gets hurt.

So, at the present moment, the Angels and Marlins appeared back-loaded contract appear to be shrewd baseball money management decisions; however, as is always the case, we need to see how it plays out.

Happy New Year to All!!!

2-Cat

Okie dokie.

By the way, the Marlins payroll in 2003 was $45 million. So much for the big spender theory.

I see Philly and Atlanta 1-2, Washington and Miami 3-4. Can you make the playoffs now as a 3rd place team? If you can that’s their only chance.

Omar can do no RIGHT
McIlvane can do no wrong!

Mets have had the 1st overall Pick 5 times since 65!
The names are:
Chilcott
Foli
Strawberry
Abner
Paul WIlson

Omar had no 1st overall he was too busy playing meaningful games for three seasons straight!

Overall we have had 20 Top 10 selections since 65!
Names are:
Rohr (2nd) Weiss is the GM Grant just president
Chilcott (1st)
Matlack (4th) Bing Devine is GM
Foli (1st) Murphy is GM
Sterling (4th)
Benton (6th) Joe McDonald is GM
Brooks (3rd)
Leary (2nd)
Strawberry (1st) – Cashen Arrives
Blocker (4th)
Gooden (5th)
Williams (4th)
Abner (1st)
Preston Wilson (9th) Hunsicker’s last year as GM!
Presley (8th) Harazin as GM
Paul Wilson (1st) McIlvane as GM
Goetz (6th)
Humber (3rd) Duquette as GM
Pelfrey (9th) Omar as GM
Harvey (7th)

The final two were Omars!
the other 18 (of which only Gooden Brooks and Strawberry were any good) are what you lumped into a group to trash Omar’s MONKEYBALL!

Tell me again why this franchise only has Two WS wins and 4 WS appearances?

Why is it we only have one WS appearance in the last 25 years? Is it due to Omar and Phillips or was it the FINE SMART DRAFTING and BUILDING of McIlvane?

Please Tag it was one thing to bitch about the last 25 years of sucking and you might have had a point if you didn’t defend the guy who was involved in a lot of player moves and development during the majority of that time!
And then to top it all off busted on three 1st rounnder in a single year that INCLUDED the top overall!

We waited on Genration K to solve all of our deficiencies and we are about to DO IT AGAIN with Harvey Familia and Wheeler!

They will need good players behind them for it to work!
And as we saw with generation K there is no damn guarantee they will even get here!
But you and Sandy are putting all our eggs in that basket!

I saw that movie I know how it ends!

HORRIBLY!

Maybe if McIlvane didn’t blow the last time we had three picks in the first that 25 year look down memory lane wouldn’t be so dim!

The team has been selling “several hundred” season-tickets a day in the wake of signing three premium free agents, according to team President David Samson, though he won’t reveal exact numbers.

“We should be in the top eight or nine in all of baseball for season-ticket holders,” Samson said Tuesday during what was described as the Final Hardhat Tour. “The reason we’re not giving the numbers is the numbers will speak for themselves when you see 35,000 to 38,000 people here every single day.”

Don’t worry so much about the Marlins, worry about the Mets!

Only those who will do ANYTHING to excuse his failures thinks it’s any different!