JUAN SOTO'S 765M$ nonsense...

glad he didn't sign with my team

Wish my team's owners were willing to invest that kind of money.

Who are you rooting for?

The saddest franchise known to man, the Seattle Mariners

Better than the Seattle Pilots.

glad he didn't sign with my team

Wish my team's owners were willing to invest that kind of money.

Who are you rooting for?

The saddest franchise known to man, the Seattle Mariners

Nah, the saddest is the Angels

I don't know if it will ever happen, but I'd like to see MLB have a salary floor, along with a salary cap. Some type of NFL style revenue sharing of TV money will surely have to be a part of it.

There is no way the small market teams can truly compete in the current system. The Rays made a good run at it, but never did win a championship. And it still stings being a fan, as their best players are almost never resigned after hitting free agency.

He still makes less than 1/10 of one percent of what Leon Musk makes, so compared to that he is way way under paid.

I don't know if it will ever happen, but I'd like to see MLB have a salary floor, along with a salary cap. Some type of NFL style revenue sharing of TV money will surely have to be a part of it.

There is no way the small market teams can truly compete in the current system. The Rays made a good run at it, but never did win a championship. And it still stings being a fan, as their best players are almost never resigned after hitting free agency.

Amen. MLB is a joke. The NFL is better in every way.

He still makes less than 1/10 of one percent of what Leon Musk makes, so compared to that he is way way under paid.

Musk plays better D though.

He still makes less than 1/10 of one percent of what Leon Musk makes, so compared to that he is way way under paid.

do you actually believe Soto provides more value to the global society of human kind than does Musk ?

I don't know what you guys think...

But no one will make me believe that Juan is worth 51M$ a year for 15 years...

Really...

Given... he's a great hitter...

BUT... THAT'S IT...

He's a mediocre fielder,,, he's got a marshmallow arm and he can't run...

BASEBALL is sick...

We can be sure the Mets' actuaries can show the financial resources required to contractually commit $ 765 million for Soto or they wouldn't be able to get the reinsurance policies necessary to manage Soto's participation risks. So, if the money is there, who deserves it? Mets' ownership and the front office? Sitting on their asses? No one is paying to see them or buy their apparel.

If we're suggesting there is a problem, it's with the baseball industry, exploitation commercialization, and gambling. That's what is generating all this money. And it isn't just baseball. Look at what it's doing to college football and basketball with NIL, the Portal, gambling, and the recent $ 2.8 billion settlement (https://apnews.com/article/ncaa-settlem ... 8f77abcf5a) which is already being challenged as inadequate on multiple sides the same day it was settled.

The money is there; who deserves it? The problem is that it shouldn't be there; no one deserves it.

The money is there; who deserves it? The problem is that it shouldn't be there; no one deserves it.

I dunno, the money's there because that's how much the public values the MLB product. Unless you're on an "every billionaire is a policy failure" kick, which I'm generally sympathetic to but have the most trouble with when it comes to athletes and entertainers. I definitely agree that the players are more deserving than the owners. In fact they're more deserving than anyone else who has that kind of money that I can think of. Normally I assume the super-rich got that way through various degrees of cheating, criming, plundering public resources, unethical behavior, etc. Athletes and entertainers generally seem like pretty innocent and meritorious exceptions to that rule.