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Originally Posted by CoMoChief
If he's trying to make the argument that he's spending around the same as other teams, (which there's no way that's even remotely possible) then DM is spending money on the wrong people  |
Well, David is basically saying that we ignored the fact that the Royals have spent way more in the draft than most teams, and our scouting budget (so we have more scouts than other teams?), etc. And its true, fans do often ignore that stuff and focus only on the opening day payroll.
Given all that though, the CBA and the new Fox contract changes things. We cant spend $20MM+ in signing bonuses any more, our bonus pool in the last draft was capped at 6 million, and in 2014 we should be seeing a small bump from our share of the new national FOX contract.
We're kinda screwed with our terrible local TV deal though, we signed it before the value of sports programming exploded, and our now way-under-market deal runs through the end of the decade.