Royals Decline Options on Crisp, Yabuta, and Olivo

Chicago White Sox buy out final year of Jermaine Dye's contract - ESPN Chicago

A Complete and Lenghty List of Baseball-Related Things Miguel Olivo is Good At

Devil's Fingers Gets Major League Call Up

Word on the street (or 610) is that the Royals have declined options on Olivo, Yabuta, and Crisp.

But how will this team survive in 2010 without 3 catchers on the 25 man roster?

Twins get SS JJ Hardy for Carlos Gomez

Miguel Olivo Hosed out of Yogi Berra Award

If you limit the Yankees Major League payroll from $200M to $100M (or whatever) without imposing a cap on the amount of money a team can spend on amateur and baseball operations talent, then really you aren’t helping anyone but the Yankees.

Why? Because if you knock that $50M off the Yankees payroll, that doesn’t mean they cannot spend it; instead, it simply means they must reallocate it to another part of the game. Now they can really go over-slot on a consistent basis. Or, if a hard-slotting system is imposed, they can reap the international talent market like none other. Not to mention the amount of front office talent they can add to the fold — ranging from scouts to quantitative analysis guys to medical staff and so on.

Living off free agency is usually a poor habit to fall into, because when signing a 30 – 32-year-old player, teams are paying for his past performances more than his future performances. By eliminating that practice for the Yankees, they can quickly develop the best farm system, player development, and front office staffs around and still have money to burn.

Mark Teahen to ChiSox for Getz, Fields

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