How International Amateurs were Breaking Baseball 

Haha, thanks. Can only do so much for a channel less than 90 days old and only 4 videos.

@@BaseballsNotDead well some take a while to make good videos, and then theres you, starting out with stellar videos

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Mariners were extremely top heavy on these lists (think like the 2022 Angels with Trout and Ohtani but still being terrible). Guys like Griffey, ARod, David Ortiz, and Felix Hernandez give them huge boosts.

@@BaseballsNotDead bad examples besides felix. ortiz never played for them and they were actually good and made the playoffs several times with arod and griffey. mariners were not terrible with arod and griffey the way the angels have been with trout and ohtani.

@@tomf5823They don't have to have played for the team. It just measures career WAR and the team that drafted or signed them. Seattle has drafted and signed some pretty good players over the years, even if they only developed elsewhere (like Ortiz, Varitek and Derek Lowe).

@@TigerofRobare right i understand that. i was responding to the comment about not making the playoffs for 20ish years. If you draft or sign an international free agent who has a good or even Hall of Fame career like Ortiz but gave him away for nothing he's not helping you. And basically for 20 or so years besides Felix Hernandez they hadn't developed and kept anyone good.

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@@somedude1901 Appreciate it, take a look around at my catalogue while you’re there. I am trying to tell a few more MLB stories but I have been travelling to the island for over a decade and chronicling my experiences regarding baseball and culture overall.

The issue is that without artificial parity, small market teams cannot function. No teams will ever be able to compete with NY and LA in terms of cash, but NY and LA cant just play each other 100+ times every season. They need milwaukee and other small market teams to survive. Allowing teams to go crazy with international spending helps poor people in the short term, but severely hurts them in the long term if the MLB is insolvent. The best way to combat this (IMO) is a solid revenue sharing system that allows poorer teams to have a bit more money to spend on player salaries.

@@Nick_2i The Cardinals are a team from a "poor" city without the number population of bigger cities, but they can compete many years in regular season to reach playoffs. The Cardinals are the second most winning WS team of all time. Also, as big as big market teams are compared to small market ones, the difference between them isn't big enough to excuse the Brewers for having 18 times less WAR from internation talents than the Dodgers. It speaks more about how bad the Brewers did and how incompetent they were in those years. Yes, big market teams have an advantage, but we can not ignore that some small market teams are in part culprit for being incompetent. Yes, I know that the Cardinals are an expection that can be one of the richest teams despite being from a small market, but I think that there are other examples about small amd medium market teams doing a job good enough to be more competitive. The youtuber from this video is a Brewers fan and there is a clear bias, because the evidence shows that the Brewers did a bad job even for the standard of their size. I agree that the league should do a better job in giving money in a more equal way to teams, but let it not pretend that all the small market teams are victims.

@@Mikhail-Stark Trust me I dont feel sorry for the teams who are "only" worth a billion dollars, and i agree that the brewers are entirely to blame for their problems Still, the Yankees are worth 7 times as much as the marlins. That is a gigantic gap between the high and low value teams. The cardinals are also an old team with a VERY widespread fanbase. I grew up near Chicago, and I was surrounded by a lot more Cardinals fans than even Sox fans. The only way to get teams like the Marlins and the A's to spend big money is to revenue share and have an inforced salary cap floor like there is in the NFL

@@Nick_2i there is a revenue sharing system already, and most of the teams that are part of it just pocket the money instead of using it on free agency.