Watch Out Yankees The Red Sox Got Pitching

The Red Sox have signed John Lackey and have extended an offer for Chapman

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I Am Expecting Them To Aquire Some More Offense (Adrian Gonzalez) Too!

by giantsrainman on Dec 14, 2009 3:18 PM PST reply actions

It's so heartwarming when the plucky little underdogs make a move

Go Red Sox! You show those big, bad Yankees that they can’t just keep buying World Series championships! On behalf of the rest of us small-market losers, go out there and put a scare into those blackhearted Bronx Bombers!

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by Flapjacks McGurty on Dec 14, 2009 4:25 PM PST reply actions

Honestly, the difference in their revenue and ours is not that great (especially when taking their revenue sharing payments into account). From a financial standpoint, there’s no compelling reason why their payroll should be $40 million more than ours. Certainly the Giants revenues could support a payroll in the $105-110 revenue, and Boras may well be right that they would support a $120 million payroll.

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by Roger on Dec 14, 2009 8:45 PM PST up reply actions

if add in the stadium payment for $20 to $25 mil, it would put the payroll right in that $105-110 mil figure you quote.

by tyrannoman on Dec 14, 2009 10:00 PM PST up reply actions

Are you sure the difference isn't that great?

This is a year out of date, so the Yankees have likely passed Boston for the #1 spot, but going to a game in Boston is about twice as expensive as here. They also own part of NESN, so I suspect that they’re making more of their TV broadcasts than the Giants (and probably using NESN to hide it from MLB).

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by Bhaakon on Dec 14, 2009 11:08 PM PST up reply actions

I think Forbes had the Giants at about $200 mil revenue this year (last April) and the BoSox around $260 — and they use their fairly estimable resources to figure their way around those kinds of bookkeeping hijinx. That counts stadium debt payments for the Giants, but it doesn’t subtract for revenue sharing payment for the Sox which puts them about $15 mil (?) closer. Now you could say that $45 million is still a substantial gap, but it probably wouldn’t look that way to the grouping that’s huddled around the $100 million mark at the bottom. There certainly seems to be a good amount of leeway for payroll addition by the Giants (which really we know exists from the confirmed stories of for instance their offers to the likes of Carlos Lee which, had it been accepted would be increase our payroll the last couple years and going forward by something along the lines of $15mil).

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by Roger on Dec 15, 2009 6:30 AM PST up reply actions

Here’s the link. Though actually looking at the complete list, the bottom is about 40 million higher than I thought it was (Florida at $140 mil) which does make the $45 million difference between us the Sox more substantial than I was thinking. Still, the point that we have no real right to poor mouthing still stands, I think.

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by Roger on Dec 15, 2009 7:44 AM PST up reply actions