I think the Red Sox overpaid for a guy who hasn’t thrown a ton of innings as a starter but I like the deal as a waypost towards what Skub should be getting.
8/300-320 feels like a ceiling compared to 6/170 for a live arm with 1 year of starting under his belt.
8/320, sounds like a deal…dangerous…yes, but still with way salaries are going.
Man that’s a lot of money for a guy who has had 1 healthy season out of 5 years.
Skubal is going to either mets, Yankees, or LAD.
Mets are at 90% payroll to revenue. They are done with big deals for a bit, IMO.
I dont think Skub is a NY or LA guy. Pretty good odds a deal gets done here. 8/320 is basically Miggy’s deal adjusted for revenue increases.
I don’t see cheap Ilitch spending that.
Well, it is to be determined if Ilitch is in fact, cheap.
Then whats the excuse then. Im dead serious on this
Excuse for what?
Not spending
Correct me if I’m wrong but it seems like the stadium is pretty empty a lot of the time. Obviously not late last year. Is that impacting spending?
They also got burned on some free agent deals so that could be a factor too. If you are spending and hitting…great. But spending on Baez and Kenta that hurts.
My jays love to give out terrible contracts. Lol
I think I expressed my thoughts in Weasel’s thread on spending.
Tigers draw was like 27k a game, pretty much mlb average.
They tried to spend on Bregman. They spent 30m in fa in addition to the 28 they offered Bregman…
Yep just posted.
Nice find. Yeah I was talking 2024.
So, long term, when they suck they draw 20k, when they are top team, 35k and when. 500 about 27k.
For the impact, you have to see how much they made in justbgame day rev and profit last year and bulk that up by 8k fans a game for peak. They probably had a few rough years like most w COVID, but they made good $ last year at 49% payroll to rev from my chart, so the “we have to C19 recover” window is closed with the fans.
