Major League Baseball: 2025 Season

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Fezzik
Nah, accountant Hal will say the Blue Jays won with a payroll $50 million less than ours, so we're clearly spending enough already.
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You're probably right. If not him GM for life Cashman will convince the Yankees are fine and just need to be tweaked. From the otuside the Yankees have been very successful. They make the playoffs every year beat n the Central division in the playoffs then get beat by a better team. They wait for Judge to have his playoff moment, Boone gets out coached and inevitably they make some bonehead error and Yankees fans like me wish for the old days when Poppa Steinbrenner was in charge. My brother is a Mets fans says that Yankees fans are spoiled. I agree just making the playoffs and winning a series and being very profitable is not enough. In the old days Poppa George would have backup the Brinks truck to get someone like Yamamoto he wanted him to play for the Yankees. I know, I know 1st world problems.
 
Barra333
Meanwhile, Toronto's latest hero is being paid less than $60k for being in the MLB this year.
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We do have one of those cheap pitcher kids, but some in the fanbase and the press want to trade him in a deal for Tarik Skubal.
That would be hilarious if they did get Skubal and kept him past free agency - Cole, Skubal, Rodon, Fried - that would be about $135 million in 2027 for just those 4 :lol:

Yeah, first world problems.
 
Fezzik
We do have one of those cheap pitcher kids, but some in the fanbase and the press want to trade him in a deal for Tarik Skubal.
That would be hilarious if they did get Skubal and kept him past free agency - Cole, Skubal, Rodon, Fried - that would be about $135 million in 2027 for just those 4 :lol:

Yeah, first world problems.
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I wouldn't hate that trade :lol:
 
For all the big money free agents and imports it’s a home grown star that finally wins it for the Dodgers.

(and of course $300 mill Yamamoto closing it out the day after starting helped a bit)


Hopefully as a Yankees fan our ownership decides to emulate then and ditches the budget. Flags fly forever - you think the Dodgers owners care right now how much they’ve spent?
 
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And now it's time to see how badly the other 11 playoff teams get gutted over the offseason, either by free agency or by skinflint owners selling off everything they can to throw a 5 year contract at someone who was pretty good last year but is clearly starting their decline.
 
Fezzik
For all the big money free agents and imports it’s a home grown star that finally wins it for the Dodgers.

(and of course $300 mill Yamamoto closing it out the day after starting helped a bit)


Hopefully as a Yankees fan our ownership decides to emulate then and ditches the budget. Flags fly forever - you think the Dodgers owners care right now how much they’ve spent?
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You know as well as I do Hal is satisfied with the status quo. Make the playoffs sell out every home game. He's happy with that. I honestly feel like he doesn't care whether or not the Yankees win the World Series.
 
kjb
You know as well as I do Hal is satisfied with the status quo. Make the playoffs sell out every home game. He's happy with that. I honestly feel like he doesn't care whether or not the Yankees win the World Series.
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Yankees don't have an unlimited budget compared to the likes of the Dodgers, Mets, Blue Jays or Cubs.
 
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Relevant to the discussion. Spend 70% of revenue on payroll - go to the World Series (or just be the Mets :lol:).
 
That was one of the best World Series I can remember seeing. All 8 games of it.
 
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Blitz24
Yankees don't have an unlimited budget compared to the likes of the Dodgers, Mets, Blue Jays or Cubs.
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The Steinbrenners don't have outside income but they are still the most valuable team in baseball according Forbes with an estimated value of 8 billion. https://share.google/TAP9H7VH6bz7OtvhE
The only reason they an unlimited budget is because the owner has a self imposed limit
 
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kjb
The Steinbrenners don't have outside income but they are still the most valuable team in baseball according Forbes with an estimated value of 8 billion. https://share.google/TAP9H7VH6bz7OtvhE
The only reason they an unlimited budget is because the owner has a self imposed limit
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The team has that value. I agree they CAN spend more, but they would hit a limit quicker than the Dodgers, Blue Jays or Mets.
 
As per the chart, the Yankees organisation itself creates vast revenue every year, irrespective of the personal wealth of the owners. The payroll level is entirely a choice of Hal Steinbrenner, as a percentage of revenue it has remained constant. He’ll spend that much only and pockets the rest, as is his prerogative as owner of a business - but that is all it is to him.
 
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Looks like the Yankees have comfortably the biggest gap between revenue and salary in terms of raw $$$. But they still spend a good chunk of money. Whether you agree whether the who and how is right doesn't matter. It is the teams that don't really try to win (CHW, MIA, COL this year) that annoy me.
 
Barra333
Looks like the Yankees have comfortably the biggest gap between revenue and salary in terms of raw $$$. But they still spend a good chunk of money. Whether you agree whether the who and how is right doesn't matter. It is the teams that don't really try to win (CHW, MIA, COL this year) that annoy me.
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I can agree with that. Unfortunately some owners don't even care enough to put a decent product out
 
Aside from the specifics of the team... sadly yes. Was always going to happen.

I'd also like to air my grievances towards the MLB end of season awards and how Toronto somehow missed out out absolutely everything. A manager who took them from 74-88 to 94-68 lost out to a manager whose team won less games than last year and relied on an all-timer of a collapse from someone else to win the worst division in the league.
Gold gloves at C, 1B and Utility should have been Blue Jays, and they had a real claim on the team award.
Comeback player of the year went to an elite pitcher who came back from an injury rather than a 36 year old who went from career bad year to career best year.
 

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