Do the owner think we’re going to watch these salary cap commercials and start, what, writing the players en masse?
Tell you what owners: when you have some skin in the game for poor performance, we can talk. Let’s pool all of the revenues, divide teams into, say, three tiers based on their cumulative records over maybe three years, and then distribute money according to the tiers. We may not be able to introduce genuine relegation, but we can introduce de facto relegation by jacking your revenues.
Personally I think it’s ridiculous that the owners should have to compete with each other to make money. What do people think baseball teams are? Businesses??
The quality of response from these models is directly correlated to the iterative quality of the engineered prompts. Quite similar, actually, to the quality of work output you get from a smart new employee being tied to the quality of supervisor guidance.
Edited to add; I’ll make a thread about AI over in Beer & Queso. Might be an interesting discussion and a good place to separate fact from fiction and fear.
I’ve never seen/noticed/remembered these Tampa uniforms they’re wearing today. Black, purple and chartreuse is not a great combo, outside of a tacklebox I guess.
That’s true, but in the current system, teams like Milwaukee and Tampa Bay can’t afford to give up top-10 prospects in Jesus Made or Theo Gillen for two months of Tarik Skubal and a competitive balance pick. Big market contending teams like the Yankees and Red Sox with top 20 prospects are a different story.
Impending lockout is what makes me want the Astros to not be shy about this trade deadline. I say, go for broke and see if the team can get on a heater (like they are right now) for the postseason. The AL is so bad that they could conceivably work themselves into the first round bye. Then it is just three series with the short first series quite achievable with Brown and Lambert in play.
It seems like both things are true here: the Dodgers can afford to trade prospects most other teams can’t, but the return is still astonishingly light. A corner OF and two extremely injury-prone pitchers (all good prospects, don’t get me wrong, but no real blue chip guys) is a package Milwaukee could afford to beat.
Of course, part of the reason the Dodgers can afford to trade so many prospects is that they’re damn good at identifying and developing prospects. Having a farm system like theirs after a decade of dominance at the MLB level isn’t just a function of money. They are very good at this stuff. Baseball America considers Zyhir Hope (the headliner in the Skubal package) to have been the third-best outfield prospect on his own AA team. Totally wild.
You’re exactly right. At some point we have to give credit to the Dodgers (and Yankees and Rays and Brewers) for consistently identifying and/or developing young players at a clip that other teams don’t manage. And if other teams can’t put together over-the-top packages of prospects because they don’t have them, then the Dodgers don’t need to put those packages together either, even though they might be able to.
Of course, it helps to keep your prospects shrouded in secrecy by being able to buy a Hernandez or a Freeman or a Betts or a Tucker or an Ohtani on the open market when you have a need.
This is where the scandal really hurt the Astros. I fully believe had the scandal never happen, Luhnow is still here and the Astros are where the Dodgers are as far as being good on the field and having a good farm