Budgets exploding in Franchise

[tessl]

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Spring Training and then Trade Deadline Prep Phase are the two times you can offer in season contract extensions.

I don't have mlbts 19 yet but in the past you could also do contract extensions during the off season and it was a great way to get good players signed to team friendly deals through they productive years.

[tessl]

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If and when this issue with budgets gets fixed someone please bump this thread or start a new one. I see no reason to buy 19 until this gets fixed and carry over my franchise into a messed up budget dynamic.

[countryboy]

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How long is the prep phase?

I'm not exactly sure. 2 weeks I think

I don't have mlbts 19 yet but in the past you could also do contract extensions during the off season and it was a great way to get good players signed to team friendly deals through they productive years.

Yeah its the same with '19. You will always be able to re-sign expiring contracts in the offseason.

[RyanLeaf16]

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This is absolutely 100% untrue. The largest contract the rays have ever signed was longoria's. And the only reason he took the money he did was because they still had arbitration control on him for a few more years and he would have lost money playing the long game. They have even said it's not financially viable to re-sign these players when they can either A) trade them for assets before they lose them or B) get a compensation pick for letting them walk. Baseball is really one of the last major sports that has no salary cap so your player salary budget is largely based on revenue earned. There are exceptions. San Diego is a poor team but is able to sign Manny Machado due to a new TV deal taking effect in a couple of years that accounts for the fact that San Diego is one of the fastest growing media markets in the country, and has several large scale telecom corporations that call the area home (cooperate sponsorships). If the pirates or rays were willing to cough up 350 mil they could have had either, unfortunately that is not a reality for those teams based on revenue they generate

Rays are on the verge of completing a new tv deal worth over $1bn. Attendance sucks, but the park is in a **** area so people don’t really want to go. There isn’t much retail biz around the park either, so there is nothing to draw the community to it. You also have a red-*** Pinellas county commissioners setup and a succession of Mayors in St Pete that have been notoriously obnoxious towards ownership.

All that being said, the TV ratings for the team are some of the highest in the league, but the current tv deal is pennies compared to the new deal that is supposed to be wrapped up. Once that is done and the stadium situation, which now looks like it will be in St Pete unfortunately, is settled you will likely see more corporate sponsorship dollars and more gate revenue and you will likely see more dollars spent from ownership. However, we now seem to have another core of young players that we can sign to extensions for another run of success like we started back in 2008.

[Therebelyell626]

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Rays are on the verge of completing a new tv deal worth over $1bn. Attendance sucks, but the park is in a **** area so people don’t really want to go. There isn’t much retail biz around the park either, so there is nothing to draw the community to it. You also have a red-*** Pinellas county commissioners setup and a succession of Mayors in St Pete that have been notoriously obnoxious towards ownership.

All that being said, the TV ratings for the team are some of the highest in the league, but the current tv deal is pennies compared to the new deal that is supposed to be wrapped up. Once that is done and the stadium situation, which now looks like it will be in St Pete unfortunately, is settled you will likely see more corporate sponsorship dollars and more gate revenue and you will likely see more dollars spent from ownership. However, we now seem to have another core of young players that we can sign to extensions for another run of success like we started back in 2008.

Agreed. While living in Florida I spent a lot of time in the Tampa area. There are actually a ton of avid Rays fans in the area. Just no motivation to go to the ball park. If pinellas county is going to continue to shaft them on a stadium, I think they should move a few miles east up the I4 and play in a certain city where a certain mouse lives. The city leadership has proved willing to build new stadiums and arenas for local teams. Soccer, basketball, and even citrus bowl got a nice little renovation. Smaller market, but a booming population with tons of tourist dollars in the area.

Florida also has the destinction of being a transient state. A lot of people who move their come from cold weather states that already have allegiances to other teams

[tessl]

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Rays are on the verge of completing a new tv deal worth over $1bn. Attendance sucks, but the park is in a **** area so people don’t really want to go. There isn’t much retail biz around the park either, so there is nothing to draw the community to it. You also have a red-*** Pinellas county commissioners setup and a succession of Mayors in St Pete that have been notoriously obnoxious towards ownership.

All that being said, the TV ratings for the team are some of the highest in the league, but the current tv deal is pennies compared to the new deal that is supposed to be wrapped up. Once that is done and the stadium situation, which now looks like it will be in St Pete unfortunately, is settled you will likely see more corporate sponsorship dollars and more gate revenue and you will likely see more dollars spent from ownership. However, we now seem to have another core of young players that we can sign to extensions for another run of success like we started back in 2008.

Pirates also are among top in the league in tv ratings and are negotiating a new deal.

It still remains to be seen whether the owners invest the extra cash in the team or pocket it. The general manager doesn't have access to the owner's bank account. He spends what the owner allows him to spend.

For some owners a MLB team is simply a business and if they can get a big tv deal with a low budget why increase the budget? Great example would be Phil Wrigley who rarely attended Cubs games and is the primary reason Wrigley Field still exists - he was too cheap to build a new ballpark.