DODGERS The FRONT OFFICE (NERDS) Thread

or perhaps even @chrisdodgers

 

Maybe I'm wrong but I believe Mr. Billingsley will have that check in his hand before the close of business on Dec. 31, 2014. Unless there is a clause providing for deferred payment I think the Dodgers must settle up with him in order for him to become a free agent.

 

Who the fuck cares about technicalities? It's on the books for 2015, and goes away after, that's all I am saying. For example:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/LAD/2014-payroll-salaries.shtml

 

umm, yeah, he's not on there. So it goes away this year.

This would have been a better link to prove your point:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah4PW47PiAi-dEFlOUFPbUkxLUxoSHNJalBOSWktR3c&output=html

 

Look at the bottom, see "Chad Billingsley Buyout".

 

When it comes to money, Tubo is the man.

 

I believe the buyouts count towards the next years salary.

 

Right, because the books have closed on 2014.

 

Correct.

If for arguments sake you have a contract that pays you 5 dollars for service in 2014 and there is a 10 dollar option for 2015 or a buy out of said option for 2 dollars that buy out option would be for 2015 not 2014

 

Tried but so far no success.

 

Here is a great article from May about General Manager salaries. No mention of Ned but great points about Friedman that ended up coming true.
http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Billy-Beane-other-MLB-GMs-are-underpaid-050510

Let’s play pretend.

You’re a major league owner. You want to make one move to change the direction of your franchise. And you’re willing to spend about $5 million a year.
Do you:

• Sign a free-agent reliever such as Brandon Lyon?
• Hire a big-name manager such as Lou Piniella?
• Go all-out to grab a hot general manager such as Andrew Friedman?

I hate to say it, but the answer is so obvious; only the owners cannot figure it out.

The GM is arguably the most important person in any organization — more important, perhaps, than even a superstar player.

But baseball’s dirty little secret is that the sport’s highest-ranking executives are absurdly underpaid.

All I’m saying is that the best way for an owner to salvage an underachieving franchise would be to identify the best available GM and establish a new market for executive pay.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for such a thing to happen. The owners can hold down the salaries of general managers — and managers, for that matter — without facing charges of collusion. Only the players are part of a union.

The trend toward younger general managers naturally leads to lower salaries. No current GM has even gone “free agent” since Beane nearly left the A’s after the 2002 season for a five-year, $12.5 million offer from the Red Sox.

Nearly eight years later, that $2.5 million average salary still would rank among the game’s highest, if not at the top. And Beane had only one team bidding for him.

Epstein and Cashman both signed extensions after the 2008 season, preferring stability — and their respective high payrolls — to the possibility of greater personal riches elsewhere.

A frustrated GM from a low-revenue club would be more likely to test the market. Friedman eventually could be a possibility. Beane, though, could be a more immediate candidate if the A’s are unable to move to San Jose.

A salary of $4 million to $5 million would tempt any executive. A low-revenue club would face disadvantages even with a cutting-edge GM. But at least the owner could go to bed at night knowing he has made the best move possible to help his team.

Nothing is guaranteed. Even the best general managers make multi-million dollar mistakes. Still, why shouldn’t the best GM make at least as much as the highest-paid manager? The Dodgers’ Joe Torre, earning $4.3 million per season, is believed to hold that distinction. Some NBA and NFL coaches make significantly more.

As important as manager Joe Maddon is to the Rays, he is not more important than Friedman, who put together the team’s roster largely through the draft and trades.

La Russa, Scioscia and a few others qualify as exceptions; Scioscia, rival executives believe, is practically the Angels’ GM. Still, a shrewd GM not only can make his owner millions by producing a winning club, but also save him millions by managing the team’s payroll efficiently.

Don’t tell me, as one ownership representative did, that teams want to avoid creating “artificial” markets for general managers.

These are the people who are paying players such as Kyle Farnsworth and Garrett Atkins $4.5 million — and blowing tens of millions more on the Carlos Lees of the world.

Me, I’d rather have Andrew Friedman or Billy Beane.

 

You think?

You miss the satire of it all and the original F Jamie proclaimations. Better F Jamie in pictures than Frank. Isn't Jamie topless better than Ned or Broxton in diapers? Now that's sick.

 

Ok, you got me.

I can admit I was wrong.

 

CBD all growed up...

 

I actually don't care what they make now, or did make as NedCo. It is what it is, and for now and probably for quite a while, we will be governed by the machinations of NerdCo. And if Ned is pulling down 500 large or something for making latte/cappuccinos, good for his fabulously lucky Ginzo ass.
And I just keep waiting, as we all do, to see what NerdCo's first move will be. Not much time has passed really, since the WS, but somehow, it feels like an eternity.
I guess...maybe....the winner of it all has something to do with that.

 

I believe it's because they just were hired and they are still evaluating the talent here but I'm growing impatient as well.