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Six Years or Seven? An Apples-to-Apples Look at the Cliff Lee Sweepstakes

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Rumors, Yankees, tagged on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Cliff Lee sweepstakes has turned into a guessing game over which mystery teams have supposedly offered the ace lefthander a seven-year contract. Although no confirmations have been forthcoming, the addition of a seventh year seems to be a major sticking point, at least for the Yankees, who, again according to unsubstantiated rumors, are unwilling […]

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Happy Days Are Here Again…Except in San Diego; Big Contracts Making a Comeback, but Padres Remain on Side Lines

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Red Sox, tagged , , , on December 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Baseball’s recession is officially over. In case you weren’t paying attention when Bud Selig announced that the sport raked in $7 billion in 2010 (an over 15% spike during an economic downturn), the Nationals sent a friendly reminder by inking Jayson Werth’s to a mega-$126mn, seven-year deal. Although many in the baseball world were left […]

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Lengthy Debate: Evaluating Baseball’s Longest and Most Lucrative Contracts

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, Baseball History, Business and Finance, Mets, MLB, Yankees on December 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Before the ink had tried on Troy Tulowitzki’s 10-year, $157.8 million contract extension, several pundits questioned the wisdom of the Rockies’ decision to enter into such a long-term pact, especially after the team’s experience with Mike Hampton and Todd Helton (the fallacy of the later suggestion is displayed below). For some reason, it seems as […]

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Yankees’ Arbitration History, or Why Rick Cerrone Was Ungrateful and Don Mattingly Couldn’t Play Little Jack Armstrong

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Business and Finance, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , , , , on November 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Last night was the deadline for major league teams to offer salary arbitration to their ranked (type-A and type-B) free agents, and a surprising 35 of the 64 eligible players were extended the invitation. The most active teams were the Rays and Blue Jays, who respectively offered seven and four players arbitration. With draft picks […]

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A Look Back at Past Contract Talks Between Derek Jeter and the Yankees

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Yankee History, Yankees, tagged , on November 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »

(In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeU.) Derek Jeter’s contract negotiations have easily been the most widely discussed topic in Yankeeland, despite there really not being much news to report. For some reason, several media types have used the off-season lull to repeatedly denigrate Jeter to the […]

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Yanks’ Targeted Price Increases a Fair Response to the Market

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, Yankees on November 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Not surprisingly, the Yankees’ decision to raise select ticket prices wasn’t a warmly received announcement, but a careful examination of the increases reveals very little impact to the average fan. Announced 2011 Season Plan Price Changes Source: Yankees.com As illustrated in the chart above, the season ticket price of the bleachers is absorbing the highest […]

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Overrated: Comparing NFL, MLB Viewership Not the Only Way to Keep Score

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, Media, MLB, NFL on October 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Even though the business of sports has evolved well beyond the realm of network television ratings, the national sports media still seems fixated on comparing the number of eyeballs watching playoff baseball to those tuning into the NFL’s regular season. Every October, the narrative of each story basically remains the same. A primetime NFL game […]

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