As I have written about time and time again, one of the big keys in any business deal is figuring out what types of decisions should be short-term and which should be long-term.  Too often in baseball circles, long-term is thought to be 2-3 years.  That is not long-term.
Yesterday, Tony Regins’s contract was extended, and [...]

In any other business besides baseball, long-term thinking is more important to the health of the company.  Those in the front offices of baseball will also tell you that they think long-term.  Or at least they did in a survey I conducted in 2008.  The problem though is that in other businesses long-term is defined [...]