One of the big questions that sports economists must be asking themselves is if the contracts we are seeing (and the ones we aren’t seeing for some big name players) are simply the product of market correction or is it a significant change in the sports model.  In baseball, the players, due to the strength [...]

So don’t care David Well’s opinion about Joe Torre, would rather have to read one more story about how Manny Ramirez’s agent says he will get an 8 year contract before spring training.  The good news is that in only a couple of weeks, these guys will be able to fill the newspapers with stories [...]

First, we have to quickly touch on the trade that took place yesterday between the Cubs and the Mariners. This John Hickey article gives you the Mariners perspective, and it really looks like they got a lot for the former Met relief pitcher, Aaron Heilman.  Heilman was sent to the Cubs for infielder Ronny Cedeno and [...]

With a slow news day going on, I thought I would just post a few connections to some interesting blogs around the league.  First, to get to the Joe Torre book, is an interesting post by Tyler Kepner where he discusses how Joe Torre used to remind Cashman that numbers don’t tell the whole story, that [...]

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