Alderson talks about Peavy, Prior, Hoffman and the WBC

by jbox on Jan 14, 2009 3:36 PM PST Comment 19 comments

XX Sports Radio: Sandy Alderson Report (MP3)

Alderson, John Moores and Dick Freeman are at the owners meeting in Arizona. Alderson discussed international baseball.
Alderson has been watching the MLB channel, thinks it's great.
Alderson isn't sure that Salary Caps work that well. "We [MLB] seem to have gotten there [competitive playing field] without a cap."
"I'm a big supporter of the World Baseball Classic, but that does not mean that I would support the interests of the World Baseball Classic over the interests of the Padres, let me make that clear"
Alderson indirectly answers a question about the Padres objecting to Peavy pitching in the WBC. He says if an MLB team thinks there is a legitimate health issue with a player in the WBC they can object. The issue would be reviewed by a 5 person panel (2 representing baseball, 2 representing the union and one doctor.)
When talking about the chances of Peavy being traded. "There is nothing going on in that regard"
On Mark Prior: "There's essentially nothing at risk, last year we guaranteed him a million dollars. This year we're not really guaranteeing him anything. That's a major difference. If we hit we hit, it could be a big plus."
Would Alderson do anything different with the Hoffman situation? "Certainly there is probably room for improvement for how we handled that situation, but on the other hand this may be best for him."

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I was like...who the hell is Dick Freeman

and found out he is another CEO. No wonder Moores has no money for salaries (besides the divorce), he has 2 CEOs, 18 presidents, 212 FO guys and a boat load of quants. I wonder if any of them can play 2nd or short?

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by planetjeffy on Jan 14, 2009 4:19 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Old CEO

now he’s COO.

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by Axion on Jan 14, 2009 4:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Here

is the whole roster.

I see they can do some trimming in the area of Season Ticket Sales – Account Executive.

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by Axion on Jan 14, 2009 4:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

yeah but they somehow got ARod as an event operations coordinator

THAT’S where all the money went to

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by justdave on Jan 14, 2009 9:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I was surprised Alderson thinks it's a level playing field

anybody else think that was odd?

by jbox on Jan 14, 2009 7:39 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Salary cap

I think his argument would be that it’s more competitive than the capped NBA. It’s a weak statement but it’s supported by just enough circumstantial evidence, i.e. Yankees suck.

Now if they go on a WS championship run because of the money they just spent that’s a different story, but does anyone outside of Yankeeland think that’s going to happen?

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by Axion on Jan 14, 2009 9:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Well

In this decade 8 times out of 9 the World Series champion has been a different team. That seems like it’s a pretty balanced playing field to me.

2008-Phillies
2007-Red Sox
2006-Cardinals
2005-White Sox
2004-Red Sox
2003-Marlins
2002-Angels
2001-Diamondbacks
2000-Yankees

by SDPads_1 on Jan 14, 2009 10:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

It wasn't that odd.

Sandy is an MLB man through and through. He knows whats up.

Salary caps mean opening the books. You have to know what you are dealing with cash wise, in order to cap it, right? The players are going to want their fare percentage if they are agreeing to this cap. So because of that, chances of you seeing a cap are slim and none. It is certainly not in the owners interests, nor the players.

Personally I say cap it, or at the minimum, share the media dollars from all 30 markets. Just pool the cash and split it 30 ways. Baseball wouldn’t even need to open their books, cus we already know what the media spends. Their books are open.

Simple fix.

Here is a good read btw,

http://www.dugoutcentral.com/blog/?p=2202

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by wrveres on Jan 15, 2009 12:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't know about it not being in the players' interest

The NFL, NHL and NBA all have a higher percentage of the league revenue going to the players than MLB (45% for MLB, over 50% for the other three). This is one of the reasons why the NFL is tying to renegotiate their CBA.

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by Wonko on Jan 15, 2009 10:15 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

the commish

Alderson trying to garner enough support from big market teams to become commissioner when Selig retires and Moorad takes over the Padres. His support of international baseball — China trip, letting Peavy pitch in WBC again – has always been more pro-MLB than pro Padres.

by Billy Almon on Jan 15, 2009 6:41 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

A cap would do nothing to solve the Padres woes.

by strummer on Jan 15, 2009 8:24 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Mark Prior

Saw him throwing in the Outfield around noon on Tuesday (or was it Monday?)

I was in the Park at Park and he was pitching from the stretch on flat ground. The catcher was squat and there was an observer. Mark is a tall dude. Throws were accurate.

by pastorn on Jan 15, 2009 9:22 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah he's a tall drink of water

by jbox on Jan 15, 2009 9:39 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

sounds dangerous

I hope you weren’t in the shrapnel zone in case his shoulder blew up. Glad to see you are safe now.

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by Sammy G on Jan 15, 2009 2:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Ha

Was gonna ask if he knew it was him when the Geiger counter started going nuts.

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by Axion on Jan 15, 2009 5:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Salary caps are lame

They don’t create level playing fields. The No. 1 reason a team wins or loses is still how it is managed.

Even when the Yankees had a little dynasty going in the late 1990s, it was with players like Paul O’Neil and Scott Brosius and Bernie, Jeter, Rivera, Tino, Posada.

Some of those players are still there, but they haven’t won with A-Rod or Giambi or Kevin Brown or Damon. I think they won once with Clemens.

by brewer090 on Jan 15, 2009 8:56 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Salary caps level the playing field in that “how it is managed” becomes more important and revenue less.

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by Richard Wade on Jan 16, 2009 10:23 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

Even with a salary cap,

there will be teams with payrolls of $100-120 million, while other teams will have a payroll of $30-40 million. The Padres problem isn’t that they can’t compete with the Red Sox or Yankees. The Padres problem is that they can’t even compete with St Louis. A cap will not change that.

by strummer on Jan 16, 2009 11:01 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs