are You slow it’s the internet. wtf u mean how I know. The only way I can support is by watching them which I do on an occasion. But I’m not the avg fan. I like baseball a lotHow would you know? Do you support a small market baseball team?
It’s a shame as soon as Skenes showed he was for real. It was assumed he getting traded. Even though PIT has dude rights like 5 more years
So why you trying to speak as some authority on fans of small market teams?
Putting a salary floor or salary cap in place wouldn't prevent this either.
That core only gets picked apart if cheap owners allow it to. Oakland is a big market (I think 6th in baseball) and we got a whole movie about their cheap ass owner letting their best players walk for nothing solely because they didn’t want to spend. Their last two owners were hand picked by bud selig while he blocked the sale of the A’s to local buyers who would’ve invested. The pirates might not play in a huge market, but they can absolutely make a big increase in payroll. Like I said, they haven’t signed a free agent to a contract longer than 1 year since 2016. There’s no justification for that. The family that owns the guardians is worth more than the Steinbrenner family is and a few years back they went into the playoffs with a $64 million payroll. The orioles just got a new owner and he’s already slashing payroll and letting key players walk. Montreal should’ve been a thriving market but the league office allowed Jeff Loria to copy the plot of major league to destroy an entire market. Then they let him buy an entirely different team on an interest free loan to do the same thing in Miami and once he was done ripping off the city of Miami for that stadium, he sells the team to a new owner whose first order of business is to give away every marlin making any money for as little in return as possible. This sort of conduct is not the product of small market owners who can’t compete. These are con men ripping off the public for every cent they can and skipping town once it no longer works. These are all markets (especially Oakland and Miami) that should be thriving. Reality is that the conduct of these owners and the commissioner should have cost the league its anti trust exemption ages ago.
yes the fukk it would. No owner wants to just give money away.
The Pirates would still move Skenes either way. You're missing the point as always and arguing just to argue. I forgot you like to play contrarian.
You quoting me lol
They would do even more if it wasn’t this invisible soft cap
A cap isn't gonna change anything. You think a cap would make Ohtani and Soto sign elsewhere?
You claim you're a baseball fan and have yet to see the point.
