Category: Owners
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Baseball’s Problem
Major league baseball’s biggest problem can be seen most prominently and surprisingly in one of their more successful franchises, the Milwaukee Brewers. The good news is that the Brewers have made the postseason for past three years and qualified for the playoffs seven times in the last eight years. Unfortunately, they are also a small…
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The Natural
One of our favorite baseball movies is The Natural from 1984 starring Robert Redford as the fictional player Roy Hobbs. Truly an inspirational film and one that even a non-baseball fan would love. We remember this iconic film, since we feel it accurately juxtaposes the love of the game from the BP, many fans, and…
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It’s Mostly About the Money
Money doesn’t buy happiness as the saying goes. On the other hand, we here at BP would rather take our chances with having money (and lots of it) and finding happiness than the other way around. The same goes for MLB team payrolls and success. As of August 27th, here is a look at the…
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Baseball’s Luxury Tax
In a recent headline that clearly highlighted the difference between the haves and the have nots was the news of the nine teams that paid a whopping $311 million in luxury tax. That tax also known as the Competitive Balance Tax assesses teams a “tax” when they go over the set thresholds set by the…
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The Poor Get Poorer
As we noted previously, MLB’s greatest greatest problem is the fact that there is a distinct gap between the rich and poor teams. If you are a fan of teams like the Mets, Yankees or Dodgers, you do not have to live with the fear that your club will have to jettison their most talented…
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Rich vs Poor
The Los Angeles Dodgers have made the biggest splash this off-season of all the major league clubs by signing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Combined, the Dodgers shelled out over $1 billion to obtain Ohtani ($700 million over 10 years) and Yamamoto ($325 million over 12 years). Ohtani’s contract is the largest in sport’s history…
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Sadly We Once Again Revisit the Oakland A’s john fisher
We never imagined when we started this site that one person would provide so much content, but unfortunately for Oakland A’s fans that is the case with their owner john fisher. In sad and not surprising fashion, MLB approved the move of the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas. As we mentioned in prior posts (here…
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Trevor May: Passion vs Greed
Previously, we pointed out here and here that John Fisher of the Oakland Athletics is one of the worst baseball owners in all of baseball. If you thought that opinion was strictly our own here at BP, then think again. Trevor May, an A’s relief pitcher had a few choice words for Mr. Fisher upon…
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The Cheapest and Most Tone Deaf Owner
Previously in our series about bad owners we brought to you John Fisher of the Oakland A’s. In addition to Mr. Fisher being a bad and disloyal owner (as he is moving his club to Las Vegas next year and robbing the Bay Area of their long time club), you can also add cheap and…
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Bad Owners Series: Colorado Rockies
In our continuing series of bad MLB owners, we bring you the Colorado Rockies. The franchises primary owners are brothers Charles and Richard Monfort, who are sons of Kenneth Monfort who owned a successful meatpacking company that was later acquired by ConAgra foods. The brothers have owned the team since 2005, with Richard as the…
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Bad Owners Series: Oakland Athletics
Oakland Athletics win the 1973 World Series
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Bad Owners Series: Cincinnati Reds
One factor that MLB will never consider when examining their drop in popularity would be to look inward. That would be to take a good look at its ownership groups or more importantly their failed ownership groups. What is that old saying, “you can’t fire the boss.” Well maybe in this case the fans should…