2013-14 MLB Hot Stove thread

Do we know for sure that the Yankees really offered $140 million? I don't get that at all. They already have too many OFs.

 

I thought the report was that they made the offer, Boras asked for more money, so they signed Beltran instead. I don't think that offer was on the table after they got Beltran.

 

I heard or saw something about the deal Texas gave him would have had to be $18M more to match the take home pay had he signed with the Yankees.
Like...the previous page. LOL. Sorry, this seems to not get a great deal of hits and I figured it was all covered in the last, say, three posts.

 

What you heard or saw was wrong, or you heard or saw it wrong, or this never happened in the first place.

 

Crassnick's commentary on the ESPN link...

Still, the money didn't hurt. Texas has no state income tax, and the Rangers play a lot of road games in Seattle and Houston, where visiting players aren't subject to a tax on their earnings. The number crunchers at the Scott Boras Corp. concluded that he would have had to sign a deal for roughly $148 million with the Yankees to compare to the $130 million he'll receive from the Rangers.

 

OK now I think we agree but your sentence is just very poorly constructed.

The way it reads is you are saying Texas would have had to pony up another $18M to match the Yankees. Clearly that isn't what you believe, but my head is spinning from trying to figure out your post.

 

Sorry I was handling a phone call, a wife screaming to bring her the tape for presents, and trying to gather my thoughts here. The way I understood it is that the difference in money he'd gotten in New York would have been the same as what he got in Texas due to taxes, etc. Less in Texas is more, so to speak.

 

I don't know if the state income tax thing is a factor or not, but it should be. If you're not at least considering it you're an idiot. Like throwing away money.

 

For a lot of athletes, the bottom-line figure is the most important thing. The bling factor, or whatever you call it. Seemingly more so in the NBA than in other sports.

 

Merry Christmas for Yankees? Japanese star pitcher reportedly being put up for auction after all: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/masahiro-tanaka-posted-report-article-1.1557932

shockey's dad, a Yankees fanatic since 1940, will be very pleased.

 

You had to figure this would happen. It makes the most sense.

Who still has money left to spend, besides the Yankees?

 

The Cubs have cleared $50m in payroll in the last three seasons and supposedly don't intend to be outbid on Tanaka, but don't know if they can convince him to come to Chicago for a horrible team.