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It's boston they never have a payroll problem and there is about one expensive player available this offseason

In th nba over the last 20 years about 27 percent of lottery players have made an all star team. Where 55 percent of NFL players taken in top 10 have made a pro bowl. Now obviously its not an apple to apples comparison but gives you an idea of the difference. And nobody is saying you cant find talent in the later round, in fact i specifically said in my first post 'of course there are exceptions' so it wasn't just dismissed like you did. But the data is clear in a system designed to spread out talent, a draft, that the NBA does a poor job as a whole of identifying a top tier talent and developing it and its why teams get stuck in that 6-12 range of the draft for years. Where as in somewhere like teh NFL a good draft and the ability to add through FA (something the NBA lacks) can make a turnaround quicker. In my opinion its the biggest problem the NBA has, that teams that are bad remain bad for a lot of years because the league is so bad especially in picks 5-12 of creating stars to make a franchise better and you end up with a bunch of Ivys and Asurs that everybody here would trade for a half-way decent player.

Man I'm gonna laugh hard if Bregman walks. Red Sox persued him, got him for a year and blew up to team

It's the nba's biggest problem. Pick six lands you a back end rotation guy.

no rush to fill that spot just to fill it

Thery arent giving up a top prospect for another left handed hitting corner outfielder

Well at least it's not skubal

Why would a future ticket buyer care what someone did with the seat today? And the number one thing in ticket sales has been and always will be winning. Not promotions, not energy in a stadium not wether it looks open or not. It's all about wining.

Expect they were alreayd bought. Why does the team care if anyone shows up or not. They got the money.

Who is president. Not sure what someone can promote him to. Super president?

This. Yankees have it except for playoffs. It's a zero issue and this article is just someone who isn't up to date.

It is not..and that's from someone who knows who runs it

Remember it takes two to make a deal. He might not want to resign, it might not just be the blue Jay's who dont want him back. Also they were almost for sure get something for him as he'll get a qo in a bad free agent group. So they get that pick which might be better than some non top 100 fringe guys

Tmi?

But that was after 10 years of very good baseball. Compare to the royals lets say who kept their guys and were bad after two.

The owner is worth $7 billion. I think they're affordable for a while

That's not how it works. And the vast majority of prospect end up being not very good big leaguers. To count on them over a an established player send you quicker to the cellar. Its part of the natural cylce, get good, add more experienced guys. Ride the wave, hopefully win something, then get bad and add more. Almost no team in the history of the game has won for an extended stretch with just their own guys.

Fans overrated their own players. Some of this works itself out. A guy like Badooo a 4 a type player? eveyr team has two nobody is going to be rushing to take our version. And rule 5 guys, there is a reason why few hit and most come back, they weren't worth protectnig to start with.

an international game is not a reward

While the players might have a single concept, make money. I would hardly classify it as a unified goal. Heck they had a mutiny last year because they couldnt get on the same page abotu who should be the focus of money-making growth. Young players? vets? top teir free agents? Middle tier?. There is also questions on if they can agree on what they want/prioritize when talking to owners as well.

They wont for elite players. Cause you are putting yourself at a real risk. 10 years 300 million is 300 million no matter what. If he takes four, gets hurt he will never come close to that 300 in total.

But that's a huge difference. Your just pushing it off like nothing. Look at our rotation at the end of last year. Skubal and crap. The crap could hardly be counted on where as Skubal started the key games, saved the bullpen and gave the team a morale boost. A player at half the WAR isn't gonna do that. These aren't robot and just saying oh well its 30 fewer runs NBD is downplaying not only the human element of the game, but a good pitchers actual value.

Wouldn't that be worked out after a year? Year 0: Mix of Juniors and Seniors Year 1: Seniors and only handful of juniors Year 2: Seniors which includes all those juniors who would have gone but stayed in Year 1. Then just that cycle from now on instead of the Year 0 cycle. So the argument makes sense last year, this year it shouldn't matter as that nil gapped was filled now. Ill use the Sabastrian Castro example. He was draft eligible last year and projected day 2 pick. But he came back for NIL money. HE then goes undrafted. Did he get worse? Probably not. He just wasn't that good to begin with. But that was masked and he was drafted after his junior year and then he washed out. Now he just washes out. Not sure washing out and being a higher pick means deeper talent pool.

Laporta wont get near kittle money. Good player but not near that level. And they wont trade an oline dude. There'd be a cap hit with that and you aren't getting jack for an old lineman. Maybe a 7th rounder if your lucky. Just easier to let them walk/retire

way too many variables to do pick by pick. But in aggregate its been done 100 times over