Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports brings us another edition of Full Count. Fans of Manny Ramirez will especially enjoy this. Let's dive right in..
- Despite their recent ownership issues, the Rangers seem to have no problem with spending big. One of the reasons that they claimed Manny Ramirez on waivers was to prevent him from getting to two of their potential postseason foes, the Rays and the Yankees. It's probably for the best that they didn't submit the winning claim as seeing Ramirez or Vladimir Guerrero in the outfield would have caused some problems. Right now they should be fine offensively with Nelson Cruz and Ian Kinsler, two big right-handed bats, coming off of the DL soon. However, they had been interested in obtaining a fourth outfielder such as Reed Johnson.
- The Dodgers could let Ramirez go to the White Sox regardless of where they are in the standings. Rosenthal notes that he has played in just three of six games since coming off of the disabled list. In the last hour we learned that the twelve-time All-Star will not start in tonight's contest against the Rockies.
- Based on this week's events it appears that Major League Baseball is doing better financially than we are led to believe. Leaked financial reports showed that the Marlins and Pirates are taking in a decent amount of money and the small-market Rays took a $4MM gamble on claiming Manny Ramirez. Rosenthal asked a GM how three teams could take that chance and the GM replied that no one really could take that risk but everyone wants to win.
The “leaked financial reports” show that Loria is a crook, not that the Marlins “are taking in aw decent amount of money”
This is what I posted on the other article that mentioned finances, so I’ll just repost here:
As a Marlins fan, I’ve always felt like Loria was a little cheap and unwilling to pay for good players. They always said revenue was low and I always had a hard time believing it. This story coming out is just proof of what I and many other Marlins fans knew all along. I just didn’t expect that Samson would be just as guilty. He always seemed so excited about the Marlins, excited about the new stadium, and he seemed like a good guy. Looks like he was just excited because of all the money the stadium deal funneled from the Miami-Dade taxpayers. What a scam. I hope something is done about this, but if an investigation is started, no doubt it will be revealed that other teams have been twisting revenue stats, and I doubt that’s a can of worms Selig wants to deal with. It’s a shame really, but that’s reality.