Random Baseball Musings

[Cubswin11]

Is there a way to quickly/easily look up overall team payroll for the last 20 years for various teams? I'd like to be able to compare some numbers for an argument I'm about to launch myself into on Facebook. I'm kind of bored today.

Not 20 years, but goes back to 2000. Just click on whatever team(s) you want to check out. What's the argument, if I may ask?

 

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/

[Guest]

This goes back to 1988: http://content.usatoday.com/sportsdata/baseball/mlb/salaries/team

[Pushfrog98]

Is there a way to quickly/easily look up overall team payroll for the last 20 years for various teams? I'd like to be able to compare some numbers for an argument I'm about to launch myself into on Facebook. I'm kind of bored today.

Not 20 years, but goes back to 2000. Just click on whatever team(s) you want to check out. What's the argument, if I may ask?

 

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/

Someone was going on about how the Cardinals have dominated the Cubs, even though the Cubs have always significantly outspent the Cardinals, to the point that there is no rivalry. The Cardinals only rival now is the Reds.

 

I wanted to make sure my initial thought (that the Cubs and Cardinals have had very similar payrolls until recently) was correct.

[Guest]

Just found out today that not a single player drafted No. 1 overall has made the Hall of Fame. I assume this will change in a couple years when Griffey gets in but as of now, Reggie Jackson (No. 2 in 1966) is the highest drafted player in the HOF.

[Derwood]

Just found out today that not a single player drafted No. 1 overall has made the Hall of Fame. I assume this will change in a couple years when Griffey gets in but as of now, Reggie Jackson (No. 2 in 1966) is the highest drafted player in the HOF.

 

After Griffey you have Chipper and A-Rod, then some potential HoFers like Mauer.

[UMFan83]

Peter Gammons ‏@pgammo

If Texas needs a RHH OF, why not Matt Murton from Hanshin Tigers, David Murphy's Wareham teammate and fellow Bosox '04 draftee?

[Formerly Snayke]

Someone was going on about how the Cardinals have dominated the Cubs, even though the Cubs have always significantly outspent the Cardinals, to the point that there is no rivalry. The Cardinals only rival now is the Reds.

 

I wanted to make sure my initial thought (that the Cubs and Cardinals have had very similar payrolls until recently) was correct.

 

Head-to-head or what?

[Guest]

Just found out today that not a single player drafted No. 1 overall has made the Hall of Fame. I assume this will change in a couple years when Griffey gets in but as of now, Reggie Jackson (No. 2 in 1966) is the highest drafted player in the HOF.

 

After Griffey you have Chipper and A-Rod, then some potential HoFers like Mauer.

I don't think A-Rod gets in unless they make a "steroid era" wing.

[OleMissCub]

Just found out today that not a single player drafted No. 1 overall has made the Hall of Fame. I assume this will change in a couple years when Griffey gets in but as of now, Reggie Jackson (No. 2 in 1966) is the highest drafted player in the HOF.

 

Chipper will get in too

 

Strawberry would have been the first if he hadn't been such a screwup.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_06_07_nyamlb_seamlb_1&mode=video&content_id=27828513&tcid=vpp_copy_27828513

 

I know he was drafted by the Rockies or someone, but that seems like a bit much.

[Rex Buckingham]

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2013_06_07_nyamlb_seamlb_1&mode=video&content_id=27828513&tcid=vpp_copy_27828513

 

I know he was drafted by the Rockies or someone, but that seems like a bit much.

 

thought he was drafted as an infielder too..

[Guest]

Anibal Sanchez has tightness in his right shoulder, will miss his next start.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Anibal Sanchez has tightness in his right shoulder, will miss his next start.

 

Brilliant job as always, Epstein!

[EhDubya]

Just found out today that not a single player drafted No. 1 overall has made the Hall of Fame. I assume this will change in a couple years when Griffey gets in but as of now, Reggie Jackson (No. 2 in 1966) is the highest drafted player in the HOF.

 

After Griffey you have Chipper and A-Rod, then some potential HoFers like Mauer.

 

Not in his lifetime

[Guest]

http://i.imgur.com/pyH9kiQ.png

[Guest]

http://mlb.mlb.com/cutfour/?tcid=tw_share#contentId=50177308

[Pushfrog98]

Someone was going on about how the Cardinals have dominated the Cubs, even though the Cubs have always significantly outspent the Cardinals, to the point that there is no rivalry. The Cardinals only rival now is the Reds.

 

I wanted to make sure my initial thought (that the Cubs and Cardinals have had very similar payrolls until recently) was correct.

 

Head-to-head or what?

It was more of the same old "Cubs suck. Always have. Always will. And the Cardinals have always done it with a fraction of the payroll." type of idiotic argument.

[Sammy Sofa]

You'd think the obvious reasons as to why the Cardinals have been a much better team for the most part would be enough without making [expletive] up.

[Iloveoldstyle]

Is there a way to quickly/easily look up overall team payroll for the last 20 years for various teams? I'd like to be able to compare some numbers for an argument I'm about to launch myself into on Facebook. I'm kind of bored today.

 

After doing the math...IMO you won't win that argument...

 

from 1988 to 2012 the cubs have outspent the cardinals about $1,584,000,000 to the cards $1,441,000,000 a difference of $143,000,000...which is less than the cubs highest payroll in 2010 ($146Mill)

 

granted...on average we're talking about $66million to the cards $60million for a quarter century that saw massive change in player salary

 

Most the cards have spent was 2012 with $110Mill

 

your dumb cardinal friend is right in the fact that, as player salaries continued to spike to silly levels between the late 80's to present, the cubs went with the program about as much as any team did by nearly doubling payroll between 02' and 03'...we've spent more than the cardinals record $110 in 4 of the past 5 seasons and last year we dropped in payroll for obvious reasons...

 

$6,000,000 gets you a damn good player when you look at the past quarter century trends of player salaries...we've overspent by 1 expensive season($146M difference 1988-2012)

 

I hope you didn't take the bait left by your cards friend...you're smarter than that, aren't you?

[Pushfrog98]

Is there a way to quickly/easily look up overall team payroll for the last 20 years for various teams? I'd like to be able to compare some numbers for an argument I'm about to launch myself into on Facebook. I'm kind of bored today.

 

After doing the math...IMO you won't win that argument...

 

from 1988 to 2012 the cubs have outspent the cardinals about $1,584,000,000 to the cards $1,441,000,000 a difference of $143,000,000...which is less than the cubs highest payroll in 2010 ($146Mill)

 

granted...on average we're talking about $66million to the cards $60million for a quarter century that saw massive change in player salary

 

Most the cards have spent was 2012 with $110Mill

 

your dumb cardinal friend is right in the fact that, as player salaries continued to spike to silly levels between the late 80's to present, the cubs went with the program about as much as any team did by nearly doubling payroll between 02' and 03'...we've spent more than the cardinals record $110 in 4 of the past 5 seasons and last year we dropped in payroll for obvious reasons...

 

$6,000,000 gets you a damn good player when you look at the past quarter century trends of player salaries...we've overspent by 1 expensive season($146M difference 1988-2012)

 

I hope you didn't take the bait left by your cards friend...you're smarter than that, aren't you?

My argument was that aside from the mid 2000's spending frenzy, the Cubs and Cardinals have always had very similar payrolls.

[Guest]

The only way to win that argument is to say:

 

"I'm not going to go into the past or talk about the Cubs past. I'm here to make a positive influence on this. My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family and myself."

[Little Slide Rooter]

@HallerDave: Vin Scully has called games for Dutch Leonard (b. 1909) and Johnny Mize (b. 1913)...and now Yasiel Puig (b. 1990) and Bryce Harper (b. 1992)

 

That's pretty wild.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

Neil deGrasse Tyson ‏@neiltyson 50m

 

In Baseball, a Pitcher who throws at a great Batter's head, has confessed his incompetence to the world.

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson ‏@neiltyson 25m

 

Not that anybody asked, but a baseball thrown 90 mph has about the same energy as a 0.22 caliber bullet fired from a handgun.

[Pushfrog98]

Neil deGrasse Tyson ‏@neiltyson 50m

 

In Baseball, a Pitcher who throws at a great Batter's head, has confessed his incompetence to the world.

 

Neil deGrasse Tyson ‏@neiltyson 25m

 

Not that anybody asked, but a baseball thrown 90 mph has about the same energy as a 0.22 caliber bullet fired from a handgun.

And yet the guv'ment wants my guuuuuns!?

 

Also, that wouldn't work as a good security system for me. "Home protected by mid-50mph heater with varying levels of accuracy."

[Cubswin11]

Brandon McCarthy suffered a seizure recently and has been pretty bad in the 11 starts he has made this year. I know he was a guy a lot of us wanted in the offseason (at least for the twitter account), but it's looking like that liner off the head last year is still having effects.