10-20-2009, 08:54 AM
I don't know that that gets at the issue, straw. The issue is whether the difference in salary - and this goes more to Piniella than Jaramillo - between a Piniella and a new manager is appropriate given the difference in their abilities. I think it's very easy to see that a $10 million ballplayer is twice as valuable as a $5 million player (or maybe not twice, because it's incremental cost, but you get my point); but it's much more difficult to see that a $4 million manager is twice as valuable as a $2 million manager.
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