But for one brief and regrettable moment Tuesday, the Red Sox captured the attention of the baseball world. By The Boston Red Sox do not have a whole lot to celebrate this season, but on Tuesday their social media team made sure to mark one special achievement: resetting the luxury tax. Trading away your best players isn't remember when mookie betts played for the red sox but now he doesntTell John Henry to keep me in his thoughts while he buys his 20th yacht, rightly deserved after saving all that money on not Mookie Betts You ever miss with an organizational approach, trade away a generational talent for pennies on the dollar to a team that immediately gives him what he wants because your billionaire owner was too cheap to give him what he wanted and then try to tell fans a bunch of BS? That’s just good business.While some may argue those are all small-market teams — despite the fact that all those teams’ owners, with the exception of Tampa’s Stuart Sternberg, are worth Now, the big spenders have adopted the same approach. They did so with this incredibly dumb — and now deleted — tweet.The tweet is a take on a meme that usually features a person hitting the “upgrade” button on a keyboard. The avoidance of the luxury tax, combined with the glacial pace of some recent offseasons and the dwindling of baseball’s middle class have made that clear.The bigger question is: Why did the Red Sox think it was a good idea to send the tweet in the first place?The answer is that this is what fans have come to accept in the game. The takeaway from “Moneyball” should have been: “Imagine how good the That philosophy has fueled MLB teams ever since. If the Red Sox kept payroll exactly the same that year, the team faced a $9.4 million tax at the end of the season.
6-keys: media/spln/mlb/reg/free/stories Please check the opt-in box to acknowledge that you would like to subscribe. Play Now Combine that with other moves, and the team is now under the luxury tax threshold entering next season. site: media | arena: mlb | pageType: stories | @RedSox Michael Lewis’ fantastic book “Moneyball,” and the sabermetric analysis that book inspired, undoubtedly shaped how fans have adjusted their views on team building. Teams have prioritized profits over World Series championships.
A team that wants to win games signs Betts no matter the cost.