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Steve B's avatar

You had to be up all night doing this - what detail !

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MachoMan's avatar

Where’s Bobby Bo?

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Jeffrey Bellone's avatar

Waiting for his next paycheck lol. While the Mets are still paying him, that doesn’t count against their current payroll.

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MachoMan's avatar

I heard all luxury tax payments go directly to Bobby Bo.

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Jonathan Warmflash's avatar

OMG, JB. I got through the “high level” primer and my head is spinning. Awesome job. Really puts a lot into perspective to see these numbers on paper.

I know I’m gonna dig deep and read the rest, but I gotta get going with my day. Good stuff.

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Jonathan Warmflash's avatar

Ok finished it. Amazing work. An act of love? lunacy? A bit of both?

One thing that strikes me just by looking at the contract breakdown by player, is how uneven pay is in this industry. You can have two guys doing the same thing, quite possibly at the same level, and the mismatch in pay is like nothing you can imagine in another industry. McCann vs Nido? Castro vs Drew Smith? Cano vs Dom? How about if Carrasco goes down and you end up with Megill starting in the same rotation as Scherzer? Wow!

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Jeffrey Bellone's avatar

Yeah, it was the underlying issue in the lockout: how to pay the younger players more. While they made some progress on minimum salaries, it’s still a pretty stark difference.

An act of lunacy sounds right lol. Thanks for sticking with it until the end.

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Jeff Cohen's avatar

My head is spinning. LOL.

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Jeffrey Bellone's avatar

Haha sounds like you chose the nitty, gritty detail in the choose your own adventure lol. Back to baseball talk in tomorrow's issue

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metsallica's avatar

This was a fantastic, informative read. On a side note, the SNY app is officially up! iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sny/id1606812495 / Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.sny

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Jeffrey Bellone's avatar

Thanks! And I just downloaded the app. I hope this makes it easier for me to stream the start of games when my kids want to watch Disney Plus lol

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metsallica's avatar

I hope so too. The NBC Sports app was a train wreck. This seems OK so far, if very basic. I was able to catch a few minutes of a sweet infomercial this morning, gotta love that SNY content, but at least it works.

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