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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #75: January 26, 2017, 08:40:49 AM »
I'm not excusing doing nothing in free agency.  This team is weaker in some spots too, like starting pitching depth, end of game relief, and catching.  I'm just not seeing anything in the other NL contender signings comparable to what the Yankees did before '09, with Teixeira, Burnett, and a few other moves to make them better than the Rays and Red Sox really fast.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #76: January 26, 2017, 09:09:47 AM »
What I meant is I don't see it as an improvement via free agency over last year's team.  I don't see this as a move to improve.  It is a move to maintain.  Melancon, OTOH, is an improvement for the Giants because they had a real weakness at closer last year and they filled it.
Still confused.

You don't see how Dexter Fowler isn't an improvement over Randal Grichuk?

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #77: January 26, 2017, 12:17:44 PM »
Still confused.

You don't see how Dexter Fowler isn't an improvement over Randal Grichuk?
oh, yes.  I might say had we signed Feliz and Holland, it would have been a bigger improvement, but that's an improvement. 


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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #79: February 06, 2017, 10:07:39 AM »
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/washington-nationals-offseason-trade-free-agent-signing-ownership-salary-ken-rosenthal-020617

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http://“He has the hardest job in baseball,” one Nationals official says, “with what he has to go through to get things done.”

:lmao:

Cry me a river. He really has to fight to get good things to happen, like giving Max Scherzer a huge deal, re-signing Strasburg to a big-money contract, giving Jayson Werth a boatload of cash, etc. :roll:

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #80: February 06, 2017, 10:10:09 AM »
:lmao:

Cry me a river. He really has to fight to get good things to happen, like giving Max Scherzer a huge deal, re-signing Strasburg to a big-money contract, giving Jayson Werth a boatload of cash, etc. :roll:

The Lerners are fine with the mega contacts because those guys sell tickets, it's the mid level talent, the depth that we are always missing.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #81: February 06, 2017, 10:13:22 AM »
Right now we're looking at around the tenth highest payroll which seems fine for DC.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #82: February 06, 2017, 10:38:21 AM »
Right now we're looking at around the tenth highest payroll which seems fine for DC.

From the article:

Their Opening Day payroll for ’17 currently projects to $153 million, 13th highest in the majors, fifth in the NL, according to Rosterresource.com.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #83: February 06, 2017, 10:52:25 AM »
Cheap Lerners and incompetent lineup and bullpen builder rizzo!

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« Reply #84: February 06, 2017, 10:54:58 AM »
From the article:

Their Opening Day payroll for ’17 currently projects to $153 million, 13th highest in the majors, fifth in the NL, according to Rosterresource.com.

http://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
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« Reply #87: February 06, 2017, 09:29:43 PM »
The Nats have spent $69 million less in payroll than the MLB average since the first ten years of the Lerners ownership (2007-16).

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Rank   Total Salary   Team
1   556,819,800   Miami Marlins
2   593,955,728   Tampa Bay Rays
3   612,223,614   Pittsburgh Pirates
4   673,639,699   Oakland A's
5   684,307,415   San Diego Padres
6   709,967,403   Houston Astros
7   743,829,876   Cleveland Indians
8   744,555,590   Arizona Diamondbacks
9   765,639,913   Kansas City Royals (1)
10   816,598,585   Colorado Rockies
11   876,838,700   Minnesota Twins
12   886,948,378   Milwaukee Brewers
13   898,574,133   Cincinnati Reds
14   900,331,943   Baltimore Orioles
15   926,996,230   Atlanta Braves
16   937,772,260   Washington Nationals
17   960,459,442   Toronto Blue Jays
18   996,428,837   Seattle Mariners
19   1,009,312,326   Texas Rangers
20   1,055,128,731   St Louis Cardinals (1)
21   1,084,591,977   Chicago White Sox
22   1,098,485,869   New York Mets
23   1,142,576,802   Chicago Cubs (1)
24   1,216,259,120   San Francisco Giants (3)
25   1,321,644,939   Los Angeles Angels
26   1,365,559,898   Detroit Tigers
27   1,404,458,778   Philadelphia Phillies (1)
28   1,569,413,481   Los Angeles Dodgers
29   1,579,495,202   Boston Red Sox (2)
30   2,071,557,668   New York Yankees (1)
   1,006,812,411   Average

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #88: February 06, 2017, 09:51:21 PM »
they're maintaining a payroll commensurate with market size while being saddled with one of the worst tv contracts in the game.

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« Reply #89: February 06, 2017, 09:56:01 PM »
they're maintaining a payroll commensurate with market size while being saddled with one of the worst tv contracts in the game.

The MASN contract was factored into the price of the team, they got a bargain.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #90: February 06, 2017, 11:13:50 PM »
The Lerners are fine with the mega contacts because those guys sell tickets, it's the mid level talent, the depth that we are always missing.

There has been a lot of speculation that scherzer was mark lerner's signing

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #91: February 07, 2017, 12:02:52 AM »
There has been a lot of speculation that scherzer was mark lerner's signing

And bidding against themselves, as I remember.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #92: February 07, 2017, 06:38:41 AM »
The MASN contract was factored into the price of the team, they got a bargain.

do you expect them to spend like a larger market team?

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #93: February 07, 2017, 08:13:11 AM »
The Nats have spent $69 million less in payroll than the MLB average since the first ten years of the Lerners ownership (2007-16).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/10/AR2007051002292.html

Rank   Total Salary   Team
1   556,819,800   Miami Marlins
2   593,955,728   Tampa Bay Rays
3   612,223,614   Pittsburgh Pirates
4   673,639,699   Oakland A's
5   684,307,415   San Diego Padres
6   709,967,403   Houston Astros
7   743,829,876   Cleveland Indians
8   744,555,590   Arizona Diamondbacks
9   765,639,913   Kansas City Royals (1)
10   816,598,585   Colorado Rockies
11   876,838,700   Minnesota Twins
12   886,948,378   Milwaukee Brewers
13   898,574,133   Cincinnati Reds
14   900,331,943   Baltimore Orioles
15   926,996,230   Atlanta Braves
16   937,772,260   Washington Nationals
17   960,459,442   Toronto Blue Jays
18   996,428,837   Seattle Mariners
19   1,009,312,326   Texas Rangers
20   1,055,128,731   St Louis Cardinals (1)
21   1,084,591,977   Chicago White Sox
22   1,098,485,869   New York Mets
23   1,142,576,802   Chicago Cubs (1)
24   1,216,259,120   San Francisco Giants (3)
25   1,321,644,939   Los Angeles Angels
26   1,365,559,898   Detroit Tigers
27   1,404,458,778   Philadelphia Phillies (1)
28   1,569,413,481   Los Angeles Dodgers
29   1,579,495,202   Boston Red Sox (2)
30   2,071,557,668   New York Yankees (1)
   1,006,812,411   Average

Yet, are above the median.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #94: February 07, 2017, 08:52:00 AM »
do you expect them to spend like a larger market team?

It was the Lerners who said that they would not profit from the team, I'm just noting that they didn't live up to their word, and calling bullcrap on their cries of poverty over the MASN deal.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #95: February 07, 2017, 09:05:24 AM »
Yet, are above the median.
yes.  That period also includes 4 years where they would have been idiots if they had spent more (2007- 2010). I'd like to see a graph of 2012-2016.  They'd be in the top 10. 

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« Reply #96: February 07, 2017, 09:34:24 AM »
yes.  That period also includes 4 years where they would have been idiots if they had spent more (2007- 2010). I'd like to see a graph of 2012-2016.  They'd be in the top 10. 

Averages do tend to look better when you filter out the bad.

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #97: February 07, 2017, 09:49:16 AM »
Averages do tend to look better when you filter out the bad.

So dumb. Great, we sign Torii Hunter for $15 million a year after the 2007 season to win 62 games instead of 59 games in 2008. Mariners still win 61 and finish with the worst record in baseball, and draft Stephen Strasburg. We draft Dustin Ackley.

Then we double down and sign Teixeira after the 2008 season. Teixeira and Hunter propel us all the way to 67 wins in 2009 so only the 5th worst record! Instead of Bryce Harper (playing in Pittsburgh right now) we draft Drew Pomeranz.

Sure, instead of Strasburg and Harper we have Ackley and Pomeranz this year. But hey, we have all those special memories of Hunter and Teixeira being valuable contributors on those last place Nats teams!

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #98: February 07, 2017, 09:53:05 AM »
It was the Lerners who said that they would not profit from the team, I'm just noting that they didn't live up to their word, and calling bullcrap on their cries of poverty over the MASN deal.

How much are they pulling from the team each year?

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Re: Lerners are Cheap - 2017
« Reply #99: February 07, 2017, 09:59:11 AM »
How much are they pulling from the team each year?

Google up Forbes estimates, the Nats were at our near the top in profits for a number of years.