Metsrospectus: Mets Finances 101

A look at the Mets payroll. Here is a preview: it does not look great...

5 months ago metsrospectus 19 comments 0 recs |

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All this talk about the Mets finances

Makes me realize just how boring and uninteresting finances in general really are. Don’t we watch baseball so we don’t have to talk about this nonsense?

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by piazza62 on Jan 12, 2012 4:38 PM EST reply actions

those finance guys are the real geeks!

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by astromets on Jan 12, 2012 4:47 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

If payroll and finances are so important

why aren’t they on the scoreboard?

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by Ogre39666 on Jan 12, 2012 7:18 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs

we should be asking this of the players

if your salary is so important…

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by astromets on Jan 12, 2012 11:35 PM EST up reply actions

"Don’t we watch baseball so we don’t have to talk about this nonsense?"

Uh, hello- spreadsheets and robot managers and moneyballs

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 12, 2012 7:44 PM EST up reply actions

Admittedly, I never read the article

I just assumed it was another pro-Picard anti-Wilpon article bitching about minority investors or Mark Cuban or something. Maybe I should have, but eh, who gives.

"Let them be stud muffins"
-Tom Seaver
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by piazza62 on Jan 12, 2012 7:58 PM EST up reply actions

I didn't either

It might be a great article, but I personally don’t like people joining AA with the express intent of advertising their website/blog/whatever.

That aside, I was just bringing up the typical canards regarding sabermetrically-inclined fans and the things that attract them to baseball.

Also, pita bread.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jan 12, 2012 8:07 PM EST up reply actions

Is that bad form?

If so I apologize for any offense given.

by metsrospectus on Jan 12, 2012 8:16 PM EST up reply actions

It's generally frowned upon.

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by Ogre39666 on Jan 12, 2012 8:43 PM EST up reply actions

it is not good form

but I don’t see the harm in a fanshot link. A different alias would have probably made a difference

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by astromets on Jan 12, 2012 11:36 PM EST up reply actions

got it, I thought transparency would be appropriate.

by metsrospectus on Jan 13, 2012 12:01 AM EST up reply actions

I use statistics as much as anyone else

I can’t objectively say how good or how valuable a player is with certainty using EYEZ alone. I didn’t think this would have anything to do with that though, I expected it to just be another copypasta of Dan Lewis’ fanpost, which is fine in its own right but we don’t really need to drill it into our minds.

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-Tom Seaver
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by piazza62 on Jan 12, 2012 9:05 PM EST up reply actions

For the record

It isn’t. It’s just about payroll comparisons and analysis. No opinion on ownership offered.

by metsrospectus on Jan 12, 2012 8:08 PM EST up reply actions

well now is your chance to give your opinion on ownership...

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by astromets on Jan 12, 2012 11:37 PM EST up reply actions

I think people put to much stock in ownership and the amount it affects the team, front office management and on field play are what matters and unless it’s the Steinbrenner Yankees then most of the time ownership doesen’t hugely affect those things. Long way to say that few of the Mets current problems are the fault of the owners (in my opinion at least).

by metsrospectus on Jan 13, 2012 12:01 AM EST up reply actions