Here is my piece on Lindor......
If you own a baseball team and cannot figure out how to sign a generational player, who is 25 years old and plays a position where guys are typically good for a very, very, very long time......then just sell the team. That's it.
I stopped reading here.
(just kidding, I read the whole thing, but I should've stopped there. That's where you proved that you had no idea what you were talking about when it comes to baseball)
Let's assume Dolan has some amount of money he is unwilling to spend......let's just call it $110 million a year for this exercise.
Let's not. This year we're already at $119 million.
In 2018, we were at $142 million. In 2017, we were at $131 million.
There isn't some stupid "hard limit" that we can't go over. Everything's flexible and depends on a shit ton of variables. What income does the team have coming in? What's the rate on return of each additional dollar spent?
Let's also assume we are slated to make Lindor the highest paid player at a $400 million extension number.
Again, what are you talking about? 400 million over how many years? That's kind of a giant, important detail you left out. Without it, you again, sound like you have no idea what you're talking about.
Using Trout's bonus as a baseline, a small market team possibly wants to front load the contract to lessen the per year sting.
The LOS ANGELES ANGELS are a "small market team"? Okay buddy.
I'm not a baseball cap guy
No shit. Yet here we are, with you writing a giant post about money in baseball. If you don't know anything about financials in baseball, why do you hold such strong opinions on the matter? A wise individual wouldn't have strong opinions on a topic they know little about. Fools on the other hand...
so someone can tell me if this isn't possible......but....
Extend Lindor, 10 years, $400 million.......$50 million signing bonus (can it be more?)......so $35 million a year base.
That leaves $75 million a year to build out a roster......which given our track record in developing pitching, seems fine.
That's not how financials work--at all. Just because you paid money up front as a "signing bonus" doesn't mean you're not going to track it over the length of time you have the asset. And again, setting a hard limit on what the "rest of the roster" would cost is asinine.
A metric shit ton. Until the MLB gets either a hard cap (like the NFL--the most competitive league around) or is more strict on their soft cap (like the NBA) there is going to be an absurd amount of economic disparity between clubs. Luckily, the current CBA is up in 2021.
