Atlanta Braves Thread - The "John Hart/ John Coppollela da real MVPs" Edition

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TBrown said:
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After seeing the details, reminds me of Bonilla's deal with the Mets:

mlbtraderumors.com said:
MONDAY 10:40am: Scherzer will receive $210MM for seven years of work, but the contract has an unusual structure, with Scherzer receiving $15MM per season for the next 14 years, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports tweets. That means the Nationals will be paying Scherzer through 2028. Also, Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Passan tweets that the deal includes a $50MM signing bonus that will be paid out “over a portion of time” for tax reasons. That bonus would, presumably, be included in the $210MM total. As Passan notes, the deferral makes the contract worth about $185MM in present-day dollars. The structure of the contract and Washington DC tax laws could ultimately save Scherzer over $20MM, however, Passan reports. Scherzer’s deferral is, obviously, the largest one in MLB contract history, leaving Bobby Bonilla and the Mets’ lengthy $29.8MM deferral in the dust.
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When did the Nats ownership go into Crazy Billionaire mode? Great deal as long as you're willing to eat the money five years from now and not let it cripple your roster.
 
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High. Dude is 31 this year, and they are on the hook for 15 million a year for the next 14 years...how is that good business for a team that was already excellent in the starting rotation? Unless they're going to move a starter for a pen arm or closer...
 
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GreatWhiteNorth said:
High. Dude is 31 this year, and they are on the hook for 15 million a year for the next 14 years...how is that good business for a team that was already excellent in the starting rotation? Unless they're going to move a starter for a pen arm or closer...
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GreatWhiteNorth said:
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They have a strong minor league system. They have an owner who's filthy rich and appears to give a damn. They have a GM with balls.
 
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GreatWhiteNorth said:
Actually I'm quite certain I'm jealous.
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Must be nice to have an owner who's willing to buy the obviously bad back half of a contract in order to get a deal done now. Every year he pushes it out makes it that much (relatively) cheaper. 14 years from now the average payroll will probably be $250 million, making the $15m payment to Scherzer relatively unimportant.

(Meanwhile Liberty will still be sitting on $90 million. Whee.)
 
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Yeah, I think bubble is the right way to think about it. Right now TV sports contracts are going insanely high because sports are the last mostly DVR-proof programming there is. I don't know exactly how the whole cord-cutting thing is going to play out over the next decade but I'd practically guarantee it doesn't end up with more money in TV networks' pockets to hand out to sports leagues.

But whatever happens, insanely rich owner who wants to win = good. Corporate ownership = crap.
 
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