[lbo-talk] Marvin Miller

[Mark DeLucas]

Payroll correlates pretty strongly with winning: Tampa Bay is perhaps
the only consistently competitive team with a payroll under $100
million. Still, it's unsurprising that the best performances should
come from lesser paid players (relative to the larger earners) --
players peak during their mid- to late-20s -- i.e., when they're
pre-arbitration or arbitration eligible (that is, cost-controlled).
Large payroll teams buy those players post-arbitration (free agency)
paying a heavy premium that often makes the contract a net loser. Not
that high payroll teams don't reap the short-term rewards of signing
excellent players -- stars typically play well prior to their mid-30s.
Unfortunately, the inability to escape those contracts during the
player's decline phase ends up sinking less-savvy, high-payroll teams
-- i.e. the Mets, Cubs and these days the Phillies.

Mark DeLucas

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>From: Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>
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>>Doug, on baseball players:
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>>> of course now lots of them make preposterous amounts of money
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>>Ah, but only the 1% ...!
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> And minor leaguers make next to nothing.
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> http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/minors/season-preview/2010/269689.html
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