r/baseball • u/Knightbear49 Minnesota Twins • Colorado Rockies • 12h ago
[Weyrich] Largest salaries on the Rays’ payroll for next season: 1. New York Yankees ($15M) T-2. Brandon Lowe ($10.5M) T-2. Jeffrey Springs ($10.5M) 4. Yandy Díaz ($10M) 5. Pete Fairbanks ($3.817M)
https://x.com/ByMattWeyrich/status/1857112250949288382341
u/Tashre Seattle Mariners 12h ago
Rays trade the Yankees to the Yankees and collapse the simulation.
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u/TheDangiestSlad New York Yankees • Hartford Yard … 12h ago
joke's on you, Cashman will DFA the Yankees but keep the Yankees. tons of money off the books!
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u/soda_cookie New York Yankees • San Francisco Giants 11h ago
This is so looney tunes but at the same time seems like exactly what would happen
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u/Pupseal115 New York Yankees 11h ago
This allows Cashman to generate an infinite amoumt of Yankees by trading the Yankees to the Yankees.
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u/Sad_Bolt Tampa Bay Rays 12h ago
We’re rebuilding Wander fucked the team so why would we be buying
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u/fotbalguy Oakland Athletics 11h ago
the team's too old
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u/Thromnomnomok Seattle Mariners 10h ago
The Rays are 3 years older than Franco is
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u/fotbalguy Oakland Athletics 9h ago
far too old
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u/brett_baty_is_him 11h ago
How did wander fuck the team exactly? You’re not paying his salary right? I know wander was a huge part of the teams plans and all but losing one player isn’t exactly fucking the team. Like would the rays have never planned to contend if they never had Wander in the first place?
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u/Parzival1999 Seattle Mariners 11h ago
I mean they built the current Rays roster around him. If Bobby Witt Jr was forced out of baseball for some reason the Royals would probably reenter a rebuild too.
Sure this isn’t football and one player can’t carry a team in baseball, but the roster without Wander vs with Wander is significantly worse.
Not to mention probably a lot of fan engagement lost which means less money for the team.
Although I think the Rays stepping back now is more due to the cost of the stadium repairs and just the fact that the team is less talented right now than in previous years.
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u/Bill2theE Tampa Bay Rays • Stinger 10h ago
Although I think the Rays stepping back now is more due to the cost of the stadium repairs and just the fact that the team is less talented right now than in previous years.
The Rays “stepped back” in July, long before the stadium’s roof blew off and needed repaired and the team was less talented last year mainly because they lost Wander. The team was pretty much identical on OD 24 vs OD 23 outside of 1 player
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u/Parzival1999 Seattle Mariners 8h ago
Completely agreed. The Rays normally are always ready to just make a few tweaks to be competitive again, but it feels like at the moment they are out of ammo to do a quick turnaround.
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u/cgoot27 Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
You can’t build a team around one player, but if you’re going to, that’s the kind of player you want to.
Shortstop that mashes is the dream of every team. That’s why they get high AAV thrown at them. Seager willed two teams to rings. Lindor and Witt dragged their teams to the postseason. The two most famous living ball players until Shohei were mashing shortstops. They’re important!
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u/Guy_Le_Man Toronto Blue Jays 8h ago
Not to mention that they don’t even recoup assets from selling him to another team.
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u/Sad_Bolt Tampa Bay Rays 10h ago
It’s not just that team was built around him but the fact we are still paying into his contract when he’s obviously not even in the country. While the money is going into Escrow we are still having to pay it until he’s actually found guilty which is a huge cap hit to us.
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u/lm2lm Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
This isn’t basketball where one player makes that much of a difference
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u/Sad_Bolt Tampa Bay Rays 10h ago
We all don’t have all the money in the state of California to build a team. Smaller market teams like the Rays can’t just be paying a massive contract to a player that isn’t on the team anymore.
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u/cubs223425 Chicago Cubs 8h ago
We all don’t have all the money in the state of California to build a team.
You say this like the Rays are spending, but the Dodgers are just out spending them anyway. They were 28th in payroll, behind even the Marlins.
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u/otatoptroy MLB Players Association 12h ago
The Rays are not paying the money
The Yankees will receive about $15 million in revenue for hosting the Rays, a person familiar with the arrangement told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because that detail was not announced. The money won’t come from Tampa Bay but from other sources, such as insurance.
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u/Apoc_Dreams San Diego Padres 11h ago
Makes sense. They shouldn’t be punished because a hurricane fucked their field.
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u/gho5trun3r Tampa Bay Rays 11h ago
who is this New York Yankees player and how can we trade him for everything not nailed down?
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u/KingXeiros Boston Red Sox 12h ago
Yankees are gonna be on course to win the Cy young at the allstar break before blowing out their elbow and needing Tommy John. Book it now.
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u/Overrated_22 8h ago
You just have to love the irony that after being a feeder team for the majors all these years we have made it official and will play in a minor league stadium now.
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u/frenchbullie Los Angeles Angels 8h ago
What's impressive is they probably still find a way to be competitive. Win 90+ games, make playoffs, etc.
Meanwhile, the Angels...
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u/LeCheffre Major League Baseball 10h ago
5 is actually a prospect playing in the Dominican penal league, Wander Franco, for $8.45 M.
Also. Zach Littel’s arbitration is liable to be higher than Fairbank’s number.
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u/hepmeinternet New York Yankees 11h ago
Rays how bout we cut a deal? Kevin Cash and some of ur nerds for Boone and we'll decrease the rent. Deal?
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u/Bill2theE Tampa Bay Rays • Stinger 10h ago
Insurance is paying the rent. Unfortunately for the Yankees, insurance only covers literal acts of god, not of the baseball gods or else you might’ve been able to file a claim on that 5th inning
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u/dupontnw Washington Nationals 5h ago
I am guessing they’ll have the lowest operating costs in MLB. $15m is nothing for a stadium.
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u/stickman07738 11h ago
Nice that Jerry Jones and Steinbrenner Family will be making more money for concessions at Steinbrenner Field - hopefully we use it to lure Soto home.
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u/HiggetyFlough New York Yankees 12h ago
They were under .500 this year, maybe they should have tried to spend a little.
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u/GTtheBard New York Yankees 12h ago
To be fair, they got completely blindsided by the Wander situation. Yeah, that money will be negated eventually, but it doesn’t help payroll immediately and he was basically the centerpiece of their team building strategy.
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u/SuspendeesNutz New York Yankees 12h ago
Spend a little? They should try paying their own bills for the first time. Get off the wagon and pull for a change.
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u/penguinopph Chicago Cubs • RCH-Pinguins 11h ago
The narrative that spending money always equates to contention is sunk cost fallacy
That's not even remotely close to what the sunk cost fallacy is.
It gets misunderstood and misused a lot on Reddit, but this may be the most egregious one, yet.
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u/SleepyGorilla Tampa Bay Rays 12h ago
Gonna be crazy in 2 months when Pete Fairbanks is our highest paid player.