The club tried to nip the conspiracy theories of the team pocketing cash, but it did not matter. The headlines all read that the ownership is pocketing money and that it is profitable to lose. It did not matter what they had said, those were going to be the headlines.
I guess I just feel fatigue in talking to others about it. I don't want to come off as a Nutting supporter, but I guess I am a defender at this point. There is nothing that Bob Nutting has done, since taking over the club, that in anyway makes him out to be some Scrooge McDuck type character. You can say he has said some stupid things, "Best management team in sports", but he has not done anything that warrants the vitriol directed at him.
I advocate taking a wait and see approach with Mr. Nutting. The club is not currently in the position to be spending money. Instead they are about to approach that phase but right now it is not necessary. This offseason they should spend some money, they have to if they want to build with this core. The next season they should be spending money on the big league club too. The time right now is not right. This offseason is.
In addition we will see if Mr. Nutting will spend to keep players here. He has shown a willingness with previous contracts to Ian Snell, Paul Maholm, Ryan Doumit, Freddy Sanchez, and Nate McLouth. One may argue that most of those players are now gone, but they are gone because of solid baseball decisions or it was incorrect to approach that player in the first place. If they target the right player, Andrew McCutchen, and spend, that would be a positive sign.
It is exhausting sometimes defending this team, but I, and am sure many of you, feel the same way. Now is not the time to quibble about major league payroll. Should it go up next year, yes it should. Should we have seen it go up this year, probably not as it was time to have the young guys come up. This plan can work, lets not deviate from it, instead give it a chance.
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The Nuttings are in the business to make money. Nobody should be shocked.
The problem is the financial structure of Major League Baseball as a whole. Revenue sharing allows for the teams at the top to basically finance the teams at the bottom as almost a secondary developmental league.
The only beef I have with Nutting and other small market owners is their inability to stand up and do something about it.
just one offseason i'd love to seem them sign a decent free agent. but yes more importantly a long term deal for mccutchen would be awesome. we need a franchise player to hang around for many years.
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