Tuesday, May 20, 2014

overpaid players

Baseball with its guaranteed contracts is one of the worst financial atrocities for fans and teams i know of. Right now id say there are about 23-30 players that are out there that are overwhelmingly underperforming for their clubs, i can give you the list later. These contracts are so absurd that the owners in order to pay them and the rest of their players raise ticket prices and have dumb local tv contracts that black out the games for a large percentage of fans in that area, see dodgers hillarious dilemma. I dont understand how the owners would allow these guarantees to continue. If im paying some dipshit 20 million dollars id have certain benchmarks for that player to reach. I know this will never happen but i can always dream if i was an owner and voted in my idea for player contracts it would be like this: a player signs a contract at a base of 3 - 5 million depending on the player. Each stat hasa predetermined amount that gets added ( ie 30 stolen bases is an extra 1 million) . It will factor in sac flies, broken up double plays etc so that not just rbis and hrs will get a player paid. Sounds complicated its not. We have computers.  If a player underperforms guess what you dont have to pay him as much. Gets injured??? Booom youre making a minimim of 3 million moron. What about a good clubhouse guy like a jeter whos old and gimps around all year....each team has a 1 player only contract where his stats dont matter. You sign him to a veteran exception and pay him whatever. If the other players get mad because of it, shut up and play idiot. What you`ll think??

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