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Will the O's be willing to top 100 million for Chris Davis?

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When I think of small market, I think Kansas City, Pittsburgh.

You factor in population, media networks, and everything else, it points to this being a mid-market town.

Not sure, how they got a lottery pick, is it because MLB put a team in DC and this was part of their concession?

Look at Revenue sharing for MLB, where the small market teams get money from the big market teams, which pay in.

Baltimore neither pays into the fund, nor do they receive money. Which points to mid market.

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When I think of small market, I think Kansas City, Pittsburgh.

You factor in population, media networks, and everything else, it points to this being a mid-market town.

Not sure, how they got a lottery pick, is it because MLB put a team in DC and this was part of their concession?

Look at Revenue sharing for MLB, where the small market teams get money from the big market teams, which pay in.

Baltimore neither pays into the fund, nor do they receive money. Which points to mid market.

According to this link, they do receive money.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/marlins-mlb-revenue-sharing-syste/

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According to this link, they do receive money.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/marlins-mlb-revenue-sharing-syste/

Thanks, well wrote article on it. I am still not sold that this is a small market town, but I guess that is my problem.

Which leads me to another question, I consider DC to be much like Baltimore, similar population size, media market. So they are a big market team, and the Oriole is a small market?

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60% of 20M is 12M

Yes. That's about what I think he'll earn next year if they decide to go year-by-year, assuming he doesn't slump terribly over the next 66 games.

BTW, you are mistaken that Howard made $19 mm in his 2nd arbitration year and $20 mm in his third. Howard was a Super-Two, and eligible for arbitration four times. The first time, he actually took his case to arbitration and won, getting an award of $10 mm, the most ever awarded to a player eligible for arbitration for the first time. Then, before his second arbitration, he signed a three year deal where he got $15 mm, $19 mm and $20 mm for his 2nd, 3rd and 4th arbitration years.

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You don't have to look to free agency to sign star players. You can give extensions to your own. Everybody becomes so vastly overpaid on the free agent market because all 32 teams have access to him so it's a resource and stupidity war.

If you extend a player already under contract then obviously you are the only team with his rights. The price naturally goes down.

Forget about Garza right now. He'll be overpaid most likely. Pay Davis now before he either walks or we overspend for a player over 30.

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Thanks, well wrote article on it. I am still not sold that this is a small market town, but I guess that is my problem.

Which leads me to another question, I consider DC to be much like Baltimore, similar population size, media market. So they are a big market team, and the Oriole is a small market?

The DC/Baltimore region is one of the top 10 in the country, but the region was separated to have DC as one and Baltimore another for baseball purposes. The DC market is huge (including most of VA). The Baltimore market is sandwiched in between lots of other markets that leaves it with relatively little extra outside Baltimore.

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The DC/Baltimore region is one of the top 10 in the country, but the region was separated to have DC as one and Baltimore another for baseball purposes. The DC market is huge (including most of VA). The Baltimore market is sandwiched in between lots of other markets that leaves it with relatively little extra outside Baltimore.

I live in the middle of both DC and Baltimore, and to me, they are similar.

TV wise, you got the 4 major networks in both cities, NBC, ABC, CBS & Fox.

DC does have the population of northern VA to add to their market.

However, the Orioles have outside areas to pull in fans,

In spite of having two teams in Pa, the team still draws fans from the I-83 corridor.

Toss in Annapolis, and there still alot of Baltimore fans in Bowie.

ESPN said yesterday, Nationals are not looking good for their bid to be 2015 ASG hosts, since the area around Nationals Park has not develop like OPACY has.

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I live in the middle of both DC and Baltimore, and to me, they are similar.

TV wise, you got the 4 major networks in both cities, NBC, ABC, CBS & Fox.

DC does have the population of northern VA to add to their market.

However, the Orioles have outside areas to pull in fans,

In spite of having two teams in Pa, the team still draws fans from the I-83 corridor.

Toss in Annapolis, and there still alot of Baltimore fans in Bowie.

ESPN said yesterday, Nationals are not looking good for their bid to be 2015 ASG hosts, since the area around Nationals Park has not develop like OPACY has.

It doesn't matter where fans for the teams reside. Besides, Bowie and Annapolis don't hold a candle compared to NoVa.

And what does the Nationals' stadium issues have to do with market size?

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Well, the only reason to try to work out a deal this year would be on the bet that in another year or two Davis will appear more valuable than he does right now. Watching him play, I don't see any reason why he won't remain a top power hitter for several years. I don't think he'll hit .300 every year but I do think he will be among the league leaders in home runs and his BA won't be as bad as, say, Adam Dunn's.

I don't think I would give him $100 million. I might try to sign him for five or six years, maybe with a top value of $80 million.

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