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Oden
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 Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:24 am Post subject: Attendance is up |
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Nick's new article states that attendance is climbing slightly and is pretty close to last year's pace now.
He also states that DiPoto and Hinch move up as Rizzo moved out. |
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moviegeekjn
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| Winning is certainly a major factor, but must consider the entertainment factor. When given a choice between watching p.v.s on cruise control or eager young athletic rookies busting their butts, fans eventually are going to make their preference known. |
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EvilJuan
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Both DiPoto and Hinch are now "director of player development?"
So: is this a typo? Or are there really two directors?
Not that the world will stop spinning on its axis or anything...
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XB3
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Did you see the article by Bob McManaman.
Making the right moves
First-year GM Josh Byrnes has D-Backs in position to contend for years to come
One of the paragraphs:
"With some expected salary cuts projected before next season, be it Batista, right fielder Shawn Green or left fielder Luis Gonzalez, the GM's next big task will be adding more stability to the pitching staff for 2007 and perhaps making a splash with a top-end man for the rotation."
Zito and Willis both mentioned as expensive. |
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EStreetMan
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:41 am Post subject: |
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"With some expected salary cuts projected before next season"
This is such BULLSHIT! We are not a small market team. We do not have to act like one. We will hit 2 million fans this year. This team is a cash cow. Yes they have debt but they do have cash lots of it. Their is no reason for this team to have a payroll under $80 million................
Do I need to break it down again? Players get ragged on all the time but owners are the ones raking it in and we the fans are paying for it...........
Enjoy those $9.50 beers...............
scott (Aurther Anderson) |
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XB3
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| I read that to mean that they wanted to dump the salaries of GonZo and Green and redirect those funds to free agent pitching. Don't think he meant the FO wants to cut the overall team payroll. |
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levski
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:46 am Post subject: |
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well, the dbacks do have a lot of deferred salaries to pay up from the colangelo days. I think they are going to be paying for Matt Williams's sixth divorce in 2035...
next year's team will be cheap enough so the actual payroll won't have to be that high. don't forget though that the dbacks will be paying some significant salaries for players they dumped in trades ($3+m to vazquez; bazzillions to fatso ortiz; hopefully a few millions to shawn green)... |
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stu
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: |
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Forbes showed the Dbacks with a 21.8M operating income for 2005
It also shows (for the first time in many years, if ever) that the team's debt/value is less than 100%.
There is no justification for them to be poor mouthing their revenues or profits. |
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matt
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| Don't forget that in addition to the deferred salaries we also have to pay Russ $8M and the team taht takes Green another $7-8M. That adds up to about $40M before we pay any current players |
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TAP
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| XB3 wrote: |
Did you see the article by Bob McManaman.
Making the right moves
Zito and Willis both mentioned as expensive. |
| Specifically, Bob McManaman wrote: |
As for next season, they probably won't get involved in a bidding war for upcoming free agent Barry Zito of the A's but could get creative in making a trade for Florida's Dontrelle Willis, who would give the Diamondbacks much more credibility as a contender.
That scenario, and others, continue to be addressed between Byrnes and ownership. But to get a pitcher such as Willis, it's going to cost Arizona a lot, mostly in the form of valuable prospects. |
I'm not sold on Willis, though it would be interesting to know who those "valuable prospects" might be.
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Pitchers hit batters. They bounce balls past catchers. They'll throw the occasional pitch behind a guy. It happens.
It's just happening a little more frequently than fans are used to seeing from Dontrelle Willis.
The National League Cy Young Award runner-up last season, Willis has struggled to maintain the command that made him so good in 2005. He's made 10 fewer starts than he did last season and already he's surpassed his walk, hit batter and wild pitch totals from a year ago.
The result: a 7-9 record and 4.08 ERA entering tonight's start at Dodger Stadium.
Asked whether he's had trouble with any particular pitch, Willis said: "All of them at different times. That's why it's hard to pinpoint one thing. Sometimes it's little things about my arm slot. It's everything rolled into one, all of the above."
Many times Willis has struggled in the past can be linked to his rhythm. He's tended to speed up when things go poorly and lose his arm slot.
"We've talked a lot about consistently having the same arm angle, consistently having the same amount of time in your wind-up, stretch," Girardi said. "It changes a lot. Slidestep. High leg kick. Different arm angle. The thing about throwing strikes is you have to be consistent. |
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