I understand the f***ing process. I am saying that they could give them more of the chump change (by baseball standards) they are already giving them.
I’m not saying that they should be legislated to or they should be made to do so, I’m saying that I am making a value judgement and saying that they are cheap in the same way I think people who don’t tip are cheap.
You can take it or leave it.
Ah yea, Microsoft that enjoys special rules that allows them to massively underpay their employees generally. Microsoft where the janitor must be a janitor for Microsoft for at least 7 years and had no choice at all to which company he can go and pursue his career as a janitor.
Good analogy pops.
I thought you meant anything under 125k period for the entire draft doesn’t count against your pool.
That’s only the case for rounds 11-40? Just to clarify. They could sign every guy from round 11-40 for 124k and that would count zero against their pool. Correct?
I assumed originally it was cap/pool manipulation. I was told further up the thread that only amounts above 125k count against the pool. If that is the case, then they would have a lot of leeway to choose what to spend.
Wait, you are the person who first replied to me.
What the hell did you mean in your original comment then? I assumed that the reason they paid so low was for pool money purposes but you said only amounts over 125k counted. Obviously, if that is not true I understand why they are so low.
The whole point of the entire structure of MLB contracts and the draft and the coming international draft is to suppress how much money they have to spend on players. MLB front offices know they are saving millions off the true cost of players (the red sox spent 65m on moncada for gods sake and now the most international guys get is like 5m).
So, yes they are cheap f***s. It would be nice if at the very least that they gave a reasonable minimum to anyone who is drafted. 50k sounds like a good number to me.
Tampa taking Jones.. seems like smart teams are taking tooled up guys and thinking they can develop them. It's like a role reversal of the early days of the stat revolution.
I mean, you still have to draft pitching at some point like any other position. If they took Manoah because they thought 'we need pitching' then this is a bad pick. Same logic applies. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt and he was the best signable player on their board.
You can trade for them. You can sign them internationally. You can sign them as free agents.
You probably shouldn't just take an OF just because you need OF. With Carrol, its also possible it was a signability thing.. didn't he go to Arizona? They have a big pool.
Generally, this front office seems to know what they are doing in the draft so I'm happy enough.
Does anyone know if he's below slot? It seems like he would be slot as he was projected around here but I have no idea.