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If Sternberg were to throw up his hands and say the sport can't survive in this market, what would it gain him? The few customers you have
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would feel as if the door was slammed in their faces. The non-customers would shrug and say they had told you so. And both sides would be ticked off.
As of 5/7/2019 the season is a little over 1/5 of the way (average of 35.5 games played per team). This fairly elite group is on pace to have these results at years end:
-- 6.5 wins / 7.5 losses / 116 ip / 4.50 ERA
The average salary for 2019 of this fairly elite group is $14.3 million.
Is this predicted performance level good value?
Scott Myers
Scott, you would have to do some persuading to make me think it is. If those 6.5 wins included the World Series, then maybe.
We arrive here at a lot of your wonderful salary breakdowns. Owners continue to pay players for past performances instead of future ones. They feed their own egos with fat contracts for players who are on the downslide of their careers. When you bring this stuff up, I always think about David Price, the ex-Ray. He's a good pitcher, but he's not worth $30 million a year. The blunt fact is that his best year was when he was in Tampa Bay.
Yet, owners continue to give out bloated contracts to stroke their own egos. Look at me. I'm trying to win. And they don't.
What's with the slow prognosis on Jason Pierre-Paul?
Scott Walker
I think the team is looking everywhere for a bit of good news. I read one preliminary report that suggested Pierre-Paul might be out for the year. I think that's probably premature, but it certainly sounds worse than we first thought. Pierre-Paul will work to get back (remember his hand injury), but the neck is important for a pass rusher. It's a twist-and-reach position.
Hey, we all know that the Bucs need Pierre-Paul. He was their best defender last year.
But think about the guy, too. Pierre-Paul has had it tougher than a lot of defensive ends. The guy deserves a break.
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