Gerrit Cole to Yankees for record deal

timekiller13

timekiller13

Old Mossy Horns
Looks like the Yankees and Gerrit Cole have agreed a record breaking deal for a pitcher. 9 years, $324 million. Yankees should have one hell of a pitching line up for the next several years. Couple that with their young talent in the field (Judge, Torres, Sanchez, Urshela, Voit) and guys like LeMahieu and Stanton (if he can stay healthy), the Bombers are legit contenders for the next 7-10 years. Interesting enough, the Yankees originally drafted Cole in 2008 straight out of high school, but he chose to go to college instead.

The Evil Empire strikes again!!
 

oldest school

Old Mossy Horns
Houston shows the world how to succeed. Without salary cap protection for small clubs.
Crazy thing is SI ran an article years in advance predicting their growth into a power.
 

CRC

Old Mossy Horns
Because the Yankees can pay out the nose wiIthout limits

Why are salary caps good for the NBA but not MLB?
 

oldest school

Old Mossy Horns
CRC said:
Because the Yankees can pay out the nose wiIthout limits

Why are salary caps good for the NBA but not MLB?
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because the nba owners have plantation mentalities wanting to hold down their employee's earnings. or so says their player's union. LOL
MLB pays their workers market value. yankees have to reward those brave enough to bear the pinstripes. It's a tough job.

the sad thing is colleges are going to be imitating MLB pretty soon.
 
turkeyfoot

turkeyfoot

Old Mossy Horns
CRC said:
Because the Yankees can pay out the nose wiIthout limits

Why are salary caps good for the NBA but not MLB?
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Yeah and all that cash has won them one series in at least last 15 years while there has been several small market teams that have won scouting player devolpement in minors and smart trades with a good manager matter in baseball. NBA the coach and strategy is not as important except for very few cases they create super teams and players run them
 

CRC

Old Mossy Horns
Only big market teams that can pay a lot (like Houston or Boston) consistently win in MLB

Yeah Kansas City made the playoffs and won it once, once, in the last few years

Now their back to being lousy

Every other team to win has been a large market since Cincinnati in 1990 and Minneapolis in 1991.
 
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TH7

TH7

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Congrats to him. I'm glad the guys are signing and not dragging it out like last year. There is a luxury tax in baseball.
From mlb.com:

club exceeding the Competitive Balance Tax threshold for the first time must pay a 20 percent tax on all overages. A club exceeding the threshold for a second consecutive season will see that figure rise to 30 percent, and three or more straight seasons of exceeding the threshold comes with a 50 percent luxury tax. If I'm not mistaken the Yankees have been under more so lately than usually. They have not had to pay Judge and Gary Sanchez big money yet.
 
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TH7

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www.statista.com

MLB opening day payroll by team 2023 | Statista

The opening day payroll of teams in the MLB is calculated by combining the base salary, incentives, and any signing bonuses.
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Here is a link to teams money's.

The movie Money Ball is good if you haven't seen it. Story of the Oakland A's success with small amount of money spent.
 
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NCST8GUY

NCST8GUY

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CRC said:
Only big market teams that can pay a lot (like Houston or Boston) consistently win in MLB

Yeah Kansas City made the playoffs and won it once, once, in the last few years

Now their back to being lousy

Every other team to win has been a large market since Cincinnati in 1990 and Minneapolis in 1991.
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Not true, Marlins won their second WS with mostly a bunch of never heard of's.............Against the highest payroll in the league.
 
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