MLB 2023: Houst*n wins, America loses

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Our household is new to MLB fandom and while our kids were watching the Astros/A's game yesterday my wife asked me how much Kyle Tucker makes a season; this is the game after he had a 3-homerun outing and has just been excellent since we started watching a few years ago. So I go to look it up and he's making.... $1.5 million a season and this is up from $750k two seasons ago. Other key parts of the lineup are all at $750k/season and in something called Arbitration years?? Then you look at the top of team chart and a few guys (Altuve, Abreu, and two of the pitchers including one fucking reliever) are all making 15 million/year...sometimes much more. Is the MLB really this top heavy? I'm just not used to this big of a gap between the highest salaries and the rest of the team.
 

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Our household is new to MLB fandom and while our kids were watching the Astros/A's game yesterday my wife asked me how much Kyle Tucker makes a season; this is the game after he had a 3-homerun outing and has just been excellent since we started watching a few years ago. So I go to look it up and he's making.... $1.5 million a season and this is up from $750k two seasons ago. Other key parts of the lineup are all at $750k/season and in something called Arbitration years?? Then you look at the top of team chart and a few guys (Altuve, Abreu, and two of the pitchers including one fucking reliever) are all making 15 million/year...sometimes much more. Is the MLB really this top heavy? I'm just not used to this big of a gap between the highest salaries and the rest of the team.
When players are under club control, their salaries are pretty bad until they get to their arbitration years, then they start to see their salaries get big bumps especially when they are nearing the point of where they can become a free agent. When players and teams go into arbitration, they both set two different numbers (player high, team lowballs) and then it either gets settled by an arbiter or the two parties come to an agreement. If they go to an arbiter, the team presents a case on why they should be paying the lowball number, and the player's makes the case for the high side. Sometimes, especially when there is a vast difference in the number, relations between a team and a player sour.

"In good faith", teams try to buy out the final years of a club controlled player, along with their 1st couple of years of free agency to 1) get that player paid and happy early, and 2) overall save money in the long run as a player like Kyle Tucker in free agency is going to command a lot of money.

The best example of a player that got bought out of his arbitration and a few years into his FA years right now is Ronald Acuna:

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8 years/$100M (2019-26), plus 2027-28 options

  • 8 years/$100M (2019-26), plus 2027-28 club options
    • signed extension with Atlanta 4/2/19
    • 19:$1M, 20:$1M, 21:$5M, 22:$15M, 23:$17M, 24:$17M, 25:$17M, 26:$17M, 27:$17M club option ($10M buyout), 28:$17M club option
    • replaced 1 year/$560,000 deal signed 3/19
    • largest-ever contract for a player under club control with less than one year of Major League service time
  • 1 year (2018)
    • contract selected by Atlanta 4/25/18
  • signed by Atlanta 7/2/14 as an amateur free agent from Venezuela
  • $100,000 signing bonus
  • agent: Magnus Sports (previously Rep 1, Gatemore)
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Our household is new to MLB fandom and while our kids were watching the Astros/A's game yesterday my wife asked me how much Kyle Tucker makes a season; this is the game after he had a 3-homerun outing and has just been excellent since we started watching a few years ago. So I go to look it up and he's making.... $1.5 million a season and this is up from $750k two seasons ago. Other key parts of the lineup are all at $750k/season and in something called Arbitration years?? Then you look at the top of team chart and a few guys (Altuve, Abreu, and two of the pitchers including one fucking reliever) are all making 15 million/year...sometimes much more. Is the MLB really this top heavy? I'm just not used to this big of a gap between the highest salaries and the rest of the team.
Not so long ago, the Houston Asstr*cks were the worst franchise in all of baseball. They didn't win their division for 16 years, from 2001 to 2017. They didn't make playoffs from 2006-2014. They had just a 0.427 winning percentage over that course of time. It was fittingly a mentally challenged franchise for a mentally challenged city.

They were getting top 5 picks in the draft for nearly a decade. You don't have to pay those players shit for like 5 years.

So, they got all the young talent in baseball for free, then they systematically started cheating as an organization because they knew Manfred was a spineless cuck that wouldn't do shit about it.

That is how you steal championships and don't even have to pay players to do it. Welcome to being an MLB fan.
 
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Muurloen

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Not so long ago, the Houston Asstr*cks were the worst franchise in all of baseball. They didn't win their division for 16 years, from 2001 to 2017. They didn't make playoffs from 2006-2014. They had just a 0.427 winning percentage over that course of time. It was fittingly a mentally challenged franchise for a mentally challenged city.

They were getting top 5 picks in the draft for nearly a decade. You don't have to pay those players shit for like 5 years.

So, they got all the young talent in baseball for free, then they systematically started cheating as an organization because they knew Manfred was a spineless cuck that wouldn't do shit about it.

That is how you steal championships and don't even have to pay players to do it. Welcome to being an MLB fan.
Rants like this brings so much warmth into my heart knowing that the 2017 & 2022 World Series Champions are living safely rent free in many people's minds.
 
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A*tros homos are lucky the Rangers are missing the best pitcher alive, the best shortstop alive, one of the better pitchers alive (Eovaldi), and one of the better RFs in the game.

A lot of large and in-charge people in that stadium. Lay-off the refried beans.
 

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A*tros homos are lucky the Rangers are missing the best pitcher alive, the best shortstop alive, one of the better pitchers alive (Eovaldi), and one of the better RFs in the game.

A lot of large and in-charge people in that stadium. Lay-off the refried beans.
Shoulda coulda woulda. Words of perpetual losers.

Looking forward to the completion of the sweep tomorrow.
 

Blitz

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Shoulda coulda woulda. Words of perpetual losers.

Looking forward to the completion of the sweep tomorrow.
Houston getting absolutely avalanche'd with their best pitcher on the mound. The future is the Rangers in Texas. Everyone can feel it. Rangers offense is an onslaught, and their pitching will eventually catch up. Plus two, top 10 prospects incoming to fill their weakest spots in their lineup.
 
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Houston getting absolutely avalanche'd with their best pitcher on the mound. The future is the Rangers in Texas. Everyone can feel it. Rangers offense is an onslaught, and their pitching will eventually catch up. Plus two, top 10 prospects incoming to fill their weakest spots in their lineup.
You still lost the series.
 

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Angels are going to give it a go. Ohtani will be an Angel for the rest of the year. Definitely a bit of an overpay for a rental in Giolito (Angels gave up a Top 65 overall prospect and their 3rd best prospect).

 
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