Nuno no more
So much for the thought about the Wild Things' starting rotation being as good as any in the league (see post below). Word is Vidal Nuno's contract has been purchased by the New York Yankees.
Labels: New York Yankees, Vidal Nuno
posted by Chris Dugan at
3:45 PM
15 Comments:
This Vidal loss could be summed up as:
GOOD: He was picked up by an affiliate.
BAD: The timing.
UGLY:He will go from one ugly striped uniform to another ugly striped uniform.
The good
He is out of the Frontier League
The Bad
99 per cent od you will think he is now a real NEW YORK Yankee
The Ugly
He will probably just get lost in the Yankee farm system and never heard fron again
With Todd Marlin gone, and not very likely to return, who makes the decisions on selling contracts and other roster moves, like Nunos in this case, in his absence?
Chris:
When an affliate purchases a Frontier League player contract, how much do they pay?
The process is rather simple. Scout tells manager his organization wants to sign Player. Manager tells Player, who usually (though not always) says he'll go. Organization pays a very small fee to purchase contract and off Player goes. Decision always comes down to the player.
The Good
Chris Blaine, the best and nicest person in the entire Wild Things organization
The Bad
The Wild Things ownership group – they haven’t got a clue. Manipulation is their
strong suit.
The Ugly
That skinny dude with the clipboard. He sure isn’t the friendly beer seller. He’s up to something.
The Good:
That 3 wild things have been picked up by mlb teams this yr: Cochran (Reds), Nuno (Yanks), & A.Williams (Brewers).
& agree with other poster-Chris Blaine is always one of the friendliest Wild Things staff member!
The Bad:
Tonight's game was rained out/postponed as I was looking forward to listening to it while watching stanley cup finals & buccos game.
The Ugly:
The fact that people can hate pin-stripe plain, blue-collar uniforms in sports. I'm guessing those that dislike them are pitt fans then, haha.
Wild Things rained out. Don't they got no TPT in Windy City. If not, they must not have as crooked politicians as in southwasted
PA
Klem Kadiddlehopper
The fee a team gets for having a player's contract purchased is minimal. I'm not sure what the figure is these days, but it's probably not more than $150 or $200. Just guessing.
The Good
All the empty seats at CEP. I just love the extra legroom
The Bad
The job done by the supervisor of concessions. Does this person even exist?
If so, I want his job because he apparently does not have anything to do. If he
does, then he doesn’t do it very well.
The Ugly
An ownership group has its head in the sand. These people are sooo smart, and sooo
educated, and soooo much better than us and yet, they can’t figure out what’s wrong
at CEP. The answer is so simple that they are killing the franchise by over analyzing
the problem. How about trying this: FIELD A COMPETIVE BASEBALL TEAM!
Here is a great way to start – dump Everson. Then, replace him with a competent
person – if you can find one willing to work for you hard to get along with attorneys.
Hire a hitting instructor – if you can find one will to work for you hard as nails lawyers.
Even better, try leaving the baseball operations to the front office folks. Give them complete
autonomy to do what you hired them to do. If you didn’t have faith in their abilities, why did you
hire them in the first place? How can they get the job done when they are running scared all
the time?
You provide them the cash (most of which I’m fairly sure has somehow been extracted from
our wallets in some fashion), and allow these people to work. Hell, we just gave a field to play
on and the best you do with it is what we have now? How darn pathetic is that?
Just noticed former Wild Things' catcher Jared Dyer is playing for the Royals rookie-league affiliate in Burlington which is in the Appalachian League, good for him.
The Good:
Only 96 game schedule.
The Bad:
The visibilty of Wild Things management since Mr. Switek (spell?)
The Ugly:
The T ball hitters on the 2011 team.
“Hell, we just gave a field to play
on and the best you do with it is what we have now? How darn pathetic is that?”
I tend to agree with this. Sometimes the only way to make money is to spend some money.
Every business has expenses, including the baseball business. It’s a bit unrealistic to expect the
taxpayers help pay them. Perhaps that is the ownership’s idea of thinking “out of the box”
It IS realistic to expect we citizens not to be resentful about how things developed with the TPT.
All we got was a pretty synthetic surface with an ugly black spray every time something moves on it. Sort
of reminds me of “Pigpen” of the Peanuts cartoon series.
Forget the silly fireworks shows – we’ve seen those hundreds of times now. The only fireworks we want to see now is on the playing field we have provided for you.
While we at it; has anybody noted the hoards of tourist coming to CEP see this 8th wonder of the world?
I thought I saw one last week – I was wrong, it was just the Cornbelters bus driver trying to find a way out of here!.
Time to try something new you wise attorneys ‘cause what you are doing now isn’t working. I’m just a dumb peasant and even I can see that! Guys with a clipboard isn’t going to help any, either.
Ima Fraid
BTW: Chris, how many runs more do the opponents have than the Wild Things so far this season?
Wild Things have been outscored 113-83.
Received an email today from someone who definitely knows what the purchase price is for a player leaving the Frontier League and going to an affiliated team.
Here is how it works:
The price for a Frontier League player is $2,000 during the season and $1,000 during the offseason. The only other option is that if a team has a player invited that an affiliate wants to for spring training. The FL team can sell him under an agreement for $1 and they pay the balance of $1499 in the event the player makes the club.
Much more expensive that I was told several years ago.
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