Sully-Chat –
Comment From LarryA - Is is impossible for the Mets to catch up to
the Yankees in revenue in 10 years? 50 years? What would it take aside from 25
World Series?
Jeff Sullivan: I don’t know anything about the nature of
finance, really, but the Mets aren’t catching the Yankees. The Yankees will
forever be a baseball empire
Comment From RotoLando - Jesus Montero…man.
Someone has to give this guy a shot at 1B, right? If it came down to Montero or
Ike Davis, which would you choose?
Jeff Sullivan: Davis… Montero sucks
Comment From Polar Vortex - What team are you most excited to see play
this year?
Jeff Sullivan: Cardinals… probably least excited by the Mets
or Brewers
Comment From Joe - Any
reason being down on seeing Milwaukee and NY Mets? Just boring rosters? Colon
hitting should be enough to watch the Mets every 5th day, at least.
Jeff Sullivan: I just find them to be relatively unexciting
rosters, based on my own particular interests. Really miss Matt Harvey. The Astros won’t be fun to watch either,
but at least there there’s still some novelty
Mack – It seems everybody has a chat now and
they all are trying to compete with Keith Law.
Jeff Sullivan
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If Stephen Drew were a better
player, he’d be in greater demand. I guess you could say that’s the main
problem with the free agent’s current market. The better a player is, the more
that player is wanted, and I can’t believe this is a sentence I’m writing on
FanGraphs. It’s the same with literally everyone. If any given player were
better, he’d be in more demand and/or he’d be guaranteed more money. Remember,
every player has room for improvement, and baseball is such an easy game!
There’s no excuse for not being perfect, really.
Drew’s good, though. Good enough to be wanted by someone.
He’s in his 30s, but he’s not old, and he’s a proven, everyday shortstop. He
seems to be over his grisly ankle injury, and he was worth 3.4 wins for a World
Series champion during a season in which he missed a few weeks. He can hit a
little, he can field, and he plays up the middle. Given no other information,
you’d figure that sort of player would be pretty appealing. Yet what we observe
is that Drew’s market hardly exists. We can never be sure of the inside reality
— and we don’t know how this is going to turn out — but for now, it looks more
like Drew’s in pursuit of a team, rather than a team is in pursuit of Drew. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-problem-with-stephen-drews-market/
Mack – Didn’t I say yesterday that I wasn’t
going to write about this guy anymore?
2 comments:
Thank you, we've had enough of him.
As to the mets catching the yankees in revenue. It is more then possible. A lot of it would have to do with the nature and structure of their carriage/cable deals. Do i think its going to happen no, but who 5 years ago thought the dodgers would become close tot he yankees. The Mets and the yankees for local revenue are int he same size market and the market factors outside of that where there are many more yankee fans are pooled revenue sources. Inf act the Mets have a large naming right fee that the yankees dont. Also remember the Wilpons now own more of their network then the yankees do. so win two ws in a 3 year span right as the carriage deal is coming up and the SNY would be able to extract a similar fee per subscriber as the yankees, at which point its jsut about the stadium prices and those could be equal if they wanted it to be. winning at the right time is important in revenue. I will say, the yankee organization, not the baseball side but the business side since they opted out of their cable deal with MSG which was like 90mm in 1999, has shown itself to be the most progressive in all of sports outside of jerryworld in dallas. Hence why the two created a stadium food operation together. They are leaps and bounds smarter in creating new revenue streams then anyone else.
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