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Originally Posted by ChiTown (Post 11878533)

$200MM payroll? Sounds legit

Royals could do that with 150/160.

Again, this team was able to sustain a payroll of $125m this year after last year's performance.
This year, we averaged 9,000 more people PER game. At $29.76 for the average ticket price x 9,000 x 81 home games. That's $21,695,040 extra.
We also had 8 playoff games which brought in something along the lines of $4.9m per game. Basically $40m extra.

This team could easily operate at a payroll of $160m.

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Season ticket sales should be off the hook next year, and they'll probably raise prices significantly - which no one will mind if they somehow keep Gordon and Zobrist.

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Originally Posted by suzzer99 (Post 11878515)

Looks like Rany agrees with me that we should sell out for the next couple years.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I almost hope Alex Gordon gets a 6/$120M offer he can't refuse. Because if he gets 5/$80M and the Royals don't match, I'll be annoyed.</p>— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/664907005203718145">November 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/dirkchatelain">@dirkchatelain</a> I'd be comfortable with 5/$80 or 6/$90. When you consider the explosion in revenue I could be convinced for 5/$85 or 6/$96.</p>— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/664909383701278720">November 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And given that the roster will be devastated by free agency in 2 years, I'm okay with overpaying in 2018-20 for a good player in 2016-17.</p>— Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) <a href="https://twitter.com/jazayerli/status/664914654255255553">November 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Rany? As in "Dayton Moore should be fired for trading Wil Meyers" Jazayerli?

That Rany?

Rany is an excellent writer and a knowledgeable Royals fan. But he's not really that good at evaluating talent. Remember how he used to idolize Kila Ka'aihue?

This isn't really about evaluating talent. It's about whether we should sell out the future to be good for 2 more years. No one thinks Gordon or Zobrist is going to decline significantly in the next 2 years.

Rany disapproved of the Shields/Myers trade because he didn't think we'd be good enough to compete by 2014. He was dead wrong on that.

I doubt anyone on either side of the debate thinks we won't be good enough to compete next year. So it's really more about priorities.

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Originally Posted by suzzer99 (Post 11878643)

I guess I don't want them to completely strip the farm system and have this team lose 100 games in 2018 and beyond. Dayton Moore's philosophy is to build a strong farm system with a continuous pipeline of talent to the major leagues. I trust the process.

I want to have my cake and eat it too. I think they can sign Zobrist for sure, and hopefully Gordon. If they do that, they've got a pretty good team. No need to trade away ALL of the prospects.

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 11877868)

Steamer has him at 1.9 WAR next year. Which for a 26 year old making league minimum, is very tasty.

worthless

I'm glad Esky got his one gold glove this year. Andrelton Simmons to the Angels is done.

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Rasmus back to the Astros

1 year/15.8 million

wowzers... newcomb AND ellis? That's quite the price.... Newcomb alone should have been more than enough.

Silver Slugger award winner : Kendrys Morales:clap:

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Originally Posted by suzzer99 (Post 11878526)

Yeah well we've seen how well the "let's be indefinitely mediocre and hope everyone has a career year at the same time" strategy has worked for the Chiefs.

I would rather be good every year & maybe happen to luck into something, than to suck for 3 decades like the Royals did. It's great to win World Series, but 30 years of just bottom of the barrel garbage is too much to stomach again. Many of you don't know how it feels, but I was a die hard Royals fan since I was a little kid. I was born in 1984, and until last year, I had not known in my cognitive memory a Royals team that was any good.

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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch (Post 11878498)

I must be missing something. Miami (28) and Houston (30) had two of the three lowest revenue totals last year. Of course they're "small market" as we know the term In baseball. If that term bothers you then use small revenue. Same ultimate message: they're broke.

Royals were 16 by the way at $231m vs Hou at $175m

Dumb. They aren't small market.
If they were low revenue last year, it is because the they had low attendance due to the teams not being good, especially Houston, and they probably have old TV deals.