Jamie McCourt Continues Assault, Plus First Workout Notes
by Eric Stephen on Feb 21, 2010 9:33 PM PST
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PrintJamie McCourt's court documents last week included even more potentially damaging information about the Dodgers' financial plans, specifically keeping payroll constant as revenues increase. Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times has the details:
The projections show the Dodgers planning to cut it to $107 million this year, with slight annual increases thereafter. In 2018, player compensation is estimated at $125 million.
The document anticipates a significant rise in club revenue, from $295 million in 2008 to $529 million in 2018, and in the average ticket price, from $29.40 in 2007 to $53.50 in 2018.
The Dodgers spent 46% of revenue on player compensation in 2007 and 42% in 2008, according to the documents. The projections call for that percentage to fall to 25% by 2013 and remain at about 25% through 2018.
Commissioner Bud Selig encourages teams to spend about one-half their revenue on player compensation, according to two high-ranking major league executives contacted by The Times.
"That's Bud's rule of thumb," one of the sources said.
It's hard to know how substantive this information is; after all, we are only getting one side of the story here. Still, if these reports are anything close to true, it's very depressing.
In other news, Sunday was the first full workout in Dodgers' camp at Camelback Ranch. Here are some notes:
- Tony Jackson of ESPN LA profiled Vicente Padilla, and Ned Colletti delivered the line of the spring when he said the Dodgers waited in their pursuit of the pitcher "until hunting season was over."
- Eric Gagne is open to pitching in the minors if he doesn't make the Dodgers, says Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times
- Ken Gurnick of MLB.com reports on Scott Elbert, who has battling shoulder tendinitis, but threw a pain free bullpen session Sunday
- Roberto Baly of Vin Scully Is My Homeboy has been prolific with his blog posts of late, including a report on Blake DeWitt perhaps auditioning to take over "The Beard" status from Casey Blake.
- Sons of Steve Garvey is finally on Twitter. Follow them at @sosgsosg
- Get your fix of spring training photos -- either from the Camelback Ranch Baseball website, or from Dodger photographer Jon SooHoo.
- Speaking of photos, former Dodger pitcher and broadcaster Jerry Reuss has quite an impressive collection of photos on Flickr. He even has details the photos taken for most of his baseball cards, like his 1974 Topps card, which was an altered version of an earlier photo (thanks to Halos Heaven for the find).
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Plenty of time (6 weeks) before that has to be decided.
by Eric Stephen on Feb 21, 2010 10:18 PM PST up reply actions
I’m not sure. They will likely just pick whomever pitches the best, but maybe if two guys (say McDonald & Elbert) pitch reasonably the same they might favor the lefty since they have three righties in the rotation already.
I tend to think coaches & front offices don’t think about having a lefty starter as much as we think they think about it. But it is something I would like to know.
by Eric Stephen on Feb 21, 2010 10:25 PM PST up reply actions
Sitting at #1 is the 21-year old phenom Clayton Kershaw. The biggest reason he’s on the list is that he both strikes out a ton of batters and walks a lot as well. Couple that with a huge fastball, and you’ve got a true power pitcher.
so josh johnson is not the top power pitcher in baseball because...........
he only walks 2.5 batters per 9 innings… instead of 4.5 like kersahaw?
LOL
Has anyone tried the fantasy camp? ST looks to be so much fun.
by Skunkburner on Feb 22, 2010 4:50 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Position players don’t need to report until Thursday, but a bunch are already there.
Manny, Ethier, Kemp, and Loney (per Dodgers)
Berroa (per Dylan Hernandez)
Plus at least Johnson, Carroll, (I think a shaven) DeWitt, Hu, and Green just based on some weekend pics
Also, Manny said he expects 2010 to be his last as a Dodger (per Ken Gurnick, plus Jeff Fletcher of AOL has a story too, as does Dylan)
Oh yeah, Martin, Ausmus, and NRI Gabe Gutierrez are in camp too. Always forget about the catchers. :)
by Eric Stephen on Feb 22, 2010 8:15 AM PST up reply actions
Manny is trying to add fuel to Phil’s trade prediction. From Hernandez:
Ramirez refused to talk in detail about problems at the plate last season, but he acknowledged that they made him change his off-season training regimen.
"My whole career, I never hit," he said. "But after this year, I felt I needed to figure out a couple of [things]. That’s what I did."
Did he figure out the cause of his problems?
"We’re going to see in September," he said. "If I’m still here."
Weird thing to say the first day you show up to spring training
by Michael White on Feb 22, 2010 8:26 AM PST up reply actions
Yea, I think that is just Manny being silly Manny.
I expect him to hit the ball hard this year, and well!
by robotmadeofnails on Feb 22, 2010 8:51 AM PST up reply actions
Looking like an OUSTANDING prediction from Phil. Kinda like mine about the Holliday/Wallace trade. :)
Your Holliday/Wallace prediction was good
Your prediction that Martin would be non-tendered, not as good.
by Michael White on Feb 22, 2010 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
I’m still willing to bet anyone who thinks Manny will be traded this season.
by Eric Stephen on Feb 22, 2010 9:30 AM PST up reply actions
I’m calling it right now, 3-way deal:
Yankees get: Manny Ramirez
Dodgers get: Carl Crawford
Rays get: 2 Dodger and 2 Yankee prospects
Who says I’m not going to enjoy it? Nothing wrong with making a fun prediction that I believe, at least, has a chance of happening.
by silverwidow on Feb 22, 2010 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
I was thinking Manny to the Yankees as well, but didn’t think about Crawford to the Dodgers. I really wouldn’t mind seeing that, though I think a power bat would be better in mind, though that trade should honestly work out very well.
Two bats that come to mind could be Jason Kubel (not a good chance, but if the Twins are out if it they might just concede and take a bunch of prospects, who knows, the Pirates did it, lol) and Brad Hawpe if the Rockies are also out of it. Unfortunately just thinking about Ethier and Hawpe in the same outfield my head might explode.
What did Phil say about trading Manny?
I wonder what we could realistically expect in a trade…maybe an 08 type situation where we send Manny and a couple players and get a non-prospect, probably not as good as bay, though.
Here’s a thought:
Yankees get Manny and a prospect
Dodgers get Granderson :)
Or a 3rd team can get involved and there could be someone besides Granderson and the Yankees can only get Manny.
Maybe an AL team
will see what he did in a half season with the Dodgers after the trade here and raise his stock a bit to make it happen. This would also mean they wouldn’t have to pay his salary for an entire season which would also make him more attractive. It would be nice to get something for him if there is a deal rather than a straight salary dump.
No more raining on Bruins Nation's rainy parade, they took their ball and went home.
Old friend Chan Ho Park
has signed with the Yankees according to Jon Heyman. He’s reporting it as a major-league deal for $1.2M plus $300,000 in incentives of some sort.
Guess it’s back to the clean-shaven Park:
(Itsuo Inouye / AP)
Not the hirsute one we saw at the end of last year:
(AP Photo/Rob Carr)
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