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ever-give-up-hope/”>seems to think a six-year, $120 million dollar deal is the right area code, but I wonder if that’s something the Giants will do. We all know how much of an albatross the Zito deal has become. I don’t think the team would want to go beyond five years, regardless of the amount.
For that matter, as much as I think the world of Matt Cain, I wouldn’t want to go beyond five years for him, or any pitcher. Pitchers have such a higher risk of injury that it just doesn’t make sense to tie yourself up for so long, we’ve seen so many of those six and seven year mega-deals just destroy franchises.
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The Giants are one injured pitcher away from being a very bad baseball team.
The real question is can the Giants afford not to sign Cain to a long term contract, because if the Giants don’t do it some other team will.
The Giants ownership has more money than any team in baseball. Example. Charles B. Johnson, one of 32 principle partners in the Giants has assets close to $5 BILLION. Steinbrenner’s assets were around $1.5 Billion. This is as of a couple of years ago. And this is just one of the 32 partners. All kinds of venture capitalists, fund managers and property owners make up the majority of ownership.
Basically the Giants owners have more money than anybody. More than the Yankees. More than the Red Sox. Far more than the Dodgers, Rangers, Angels, Phillies and so forth.
The bottom line is the Giants have assets of multiple billions, nevertheless the stooges like to blame Zito and Rowand contracts for the Giants lack of over the top spending. Which is ludicrous and ridiculous on its face. What the Giants ownership has is a reluctance to spend more than an arbitrary artificially imposed cap.
To give you an example. 126 million seconds (Zitos contract in seconds) is 4 years. 5 billion ( the assets of just one of thirty-two principle partners) seconds is 155 years.
The Giants ownership could spend $200 million per year on payroll and never blink if they wanted to. But they don’t want to spend their own money. They only want to spend the ticket/concession/parking/merchandise buying and cable-subscriber revenue generating money — the public’s money.
Baer’s job is to basically give the owners miserliness cover. It explains why Sabean still has a job… He continues to put the players on the field that will keep the turnstiles turning, and little more. The success of the ballclub is not an ends, but a means.
The decision to keep Zito around this year is a financial one only. It is only his contract that keeps him on the roster. The Giants front office is too cheap to to cut him loose. You see, as long as they don’t have to spend their own money, its not their sunk cost. If they were to replace Zito then they would have had to spend their own money and that is something they have been loathe to do.
Bottom line is the Giants ownership is a bunch of miserly money-grubbing cheap fucks.
Yeah, it always pisses me off too that rich people don’t spend their money the way I want them to. Whose money do they think it is anyway?
What frustrates me is not that they won’t spend more than ~$130 million, exactly, it’s that they treat the Zito & Rowand contracts as if they produce any current value. They’re lost, sunk costs. Write them off and move on, and don’t hamper current productive spending with past mistakes. Any business that has the resources to absorb losses does this, but not the Giants. This is a valid reason imo to be pissed off that the rich bastards won’t spend more right now–it’s not that they set one of the biggest budgets in baseball and stick to it, it’s that they count things in that budget that they shouldn’t.
Thanks again Johnny. 5 years tops and 4 would even be better now, whatever the money. No more strangle holds please.
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