Bud Selig Should Have Rejected A.J. Burnett Deal
This is amazing. This is one of the weirdest arguments I've ever seen from a mainstream columnist, and I've seen plenty of weird ones. I'm not even totally sure what this guy is talking about. Not Pat, of course, but I'm linking to him because that's where I found it, and SB Nation is telling me the link to the original article isn't valid.
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Where was this dickhead when the Pirates gave away Aramis?
Occupy MLB! Down with Seligula!
by WTM on Feb 20, 2012 11:49 AM EST reply actions 5 recs
He probally thought that was a good deal...
After all we did land Bobby Hill in that trade.
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by Bradley James McEachern on Feb 20, 2012 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
Richard Griffin is one of the worst sportswriters out there
He was a frequent “contributor” on Fire Joe Morgan.
The article, which makes no sense whatsoever, is here:
by maguro on Feb 20, 2012 12:05 PM EST via mobile reply actions
The autor has a point when he talks about the Yanks screwing the system by giving $$$$ to any FA
But the Burnett trade and the other example he gives are totally different. The Burnett trade makes baseball sense for both teams, and the Yankees still pay for their mistake of signing a $88M.
Maybe as a Toronto writer, he thinks whatever helps the Yankees is a bullet in the foot of the Jays … but that was poorly executed. Basically, he “Smitzik-ed”.
Perhaps if the extremely wealthy owners of the Blue Jays loosened their purse strings, they might be able to compete in their division.
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by nycbucsfan on Feb 20, 2012 4:06 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I think his point...
albeit a horribly illustrated one, is that allowing the super-rich to buy their way out of a big deal by dumping him on a team that can’t compete for FA talent will only widen the gap between baseball haves and have nots by encouraging wild spending through the allowance of financially motivated deals like this one.
That is stupid. Getting overburdened by massive contracts doesn’t encourage limitless spending because a player has to show some value in order for a trade like this to work. If it didn’t, then the Cubs would have bought their way out of Soriano’s mega-deal by dumping him on Baltimore and Adam Dunn would have been hitting cleanup for Oakland in mid-May of last season. The Yankees essentially gave A.J. Burnett $70M for three years of work. That’s batshit crazy no matter how this your revenue stream is. The Yanks were fortunate enought to find a taker at the right price and it enabled them to go out and sign Eric Chavez (yippee!). If their is a problem with baseball’s economic model (and I believe their is), it is allowing unchecked spending by a select few teams that makes smaller market teams question their ability to re-sign homegrown players before they even reach arbitration.
by KentuckyPirate on Feb 20, 2012 12:40 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, I thought the same thing as I trudged thru this atrocity
He laments the fact that the Yankees affect the free agent market in a severe way, yet are able to continue without feeling the effects of said bad contract to AJ.
The way you fix the issue he laments is not to veto trades that help both sides (because then everyone completely misses the point and think that Selig hates the Yankees/Pittsburgh/baseball in general), but to fix the economic system that Selig, the Players Union and the MLB in general has so vehemently fought to protect over the years.
In other words, you’re attempting to beat a dead horse with a new weapon – a ridiculous argument that uses a new development that has headlines to garner attention. It’s not going to happen, so this article, and the argument contained within it, are worthless.
And really,
the article completely misses the point that if the Commissioner hates the fact that the contract changed the dynamics of the free agent market, then he should have veto’ed the contract when it was signed at the beginning, not now. Using this trade to make that point is just ass backwards, and the only thing it has over the Commish vetoing it at the time of signing was the benefit of hindsight. Even then, it uses a subjective valuation of Burnett in relation to his contract, which I think the Commissioner would have a hard time making a solid case for in either situation.
Why have I wasted time and brain cycles thinking about this article today. I feel like the author just fist pumped once after realizing he tricked me into thinking about it. Damnit.
With this and the draft news
it’s like everyone is trying to annoy the living **** outta me. I need to get off the Internet.
by bosten7 on Feb 20, 2012 2:13 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Actually, it says the Yankees manipulated Pirates fans.
by Charlie Wilmoth on Feb 20, 2012 2:50 PM EST up reply actions
Still
Wish there was more of this kind of manipulation in the world.
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Manipulate THIS, ya filthy bastahds.
wait, what
how did they manipulate us
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by WVPiratesfan on Feb 20, 2012 6:21 PM EST up reply actions
Cerainly took the long way around to get to the point,
but a lot of it was true.The whole baseball economics resemble the recent banking bust that nearly wiped out our economy. These safety nets continue to to allow big spenders to gamble big on marginal players yet never face the full consequences. when the gamble doesn’t pay off. Meanwhile they have artificially inflated the market for the rest of the teams, most of which are operating responsibly. Cashman was on MLB radio today talking about all the money they were saving in this trade. Including the huge savings they would receive from a luxury tax break by getting that contract off their books.The money they got back from the Bucs was just gravy.The fans will eventually get to the point where they can no longer carry the financial burden to keep this going. Maybe he’s right. Maybe Cashman needs to swallow some of his own medicine. Not in this case though. I’m thrilled AJ is here.
An idea that might be fun to deal with this kind of "unloading an overpaid player to somebody else" move
is for the Commissioner to officially consider, at his discretion, that the salaries of the players involved remain on the payroll of their original team. If he thinks a trade is purely a salary dump by a team wishing to go under the luxury tax threshold, the trade is completed, each team pays whatever was negotiated, BUT each team is still responsible for the contracts signed.
In our case, the Pirates get Burnett and pay $13M over 2 years, the Yankees get 2 prospects, pay the $20M remaining on Burnett’s contract, but their official payroll still includes the whole $33M.
We’re talking about Selig so it will never happen, but it doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun !?
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