Phil Riewer
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Joined: 8/24/2007
From: MN
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ORIGINAL: Phil Riewer Examples of Media in the last day that isn't going to stand pat on payroll (who usually say nothing): Aaron Gleeman @AaronGleeman Relative to the average MLB payroll, the Twins' current 2024 payroll is their lowest since the final season at the Metrodome in 2009. Twins' payroll in 2009 was 74% of the MLB average. Twins' current $124 million payroll is 75% of the $164 million MLB average, per FanGraphs. Cody Pirkl @CodyPirkl The #MNTwins also have the 8th richest owner in the MLB by net worth, and Minnesota is the 15th largest market in the MLB. The 8th richest ownership group in baseball in the 15th largest market had their highest payroll ever last year. Falvine called it unprecedented in team history, yet it was only 17th in MLB last year. To recap...8th richest, 15th biggest, 17th highest payroll....and the Twins make it sound like that was beyond their means. And this year they are 19th You know, for all this big talk, maybe if some of you put some skin in the game financially, the Twins would have the revenue needed to have bigger player payrolls. Go to some games. Buy some concessions. Buy tickets for family and friends as gifts. I used to go to 3-4 games a year. I was excited last year and could only make it to one. It would be so easy to make it exciting for me, yet. Like I said earlier I might catch a couple Saints games instead.
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