A few weeks ago, I started what I hoped would be a series on baseball’s economic issues. As you can see, it’s been a while between articles. It has taken me three weeks to put together a coherent salary-cap column, because there are so many issues that come into play when trying to write about…
MARLINS LET BLOOD, GET NEW BLOOD "We haven’t laid off anybody. In this transaction, all we’re guilty of is being loyal to our employees that we have." —David Samson, new Marlins president, after the entire player-development staff was laid off so that the Expos player-development staff could take over "I don’t see any reason why…