[新聞] It's Time To Move Past A-Rod's Salary

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NY SUN: http://www.nysun.com/article/67099 It's Time To Move Past A-Rod's Salary 別再拿阿肉的薪水做文章了 (以下重點翻) By Steven Goldman November 28, 2007 It's time to move on. Get over it. Forget about the amount of money Alex Rod- riguez will be making. It's none of your business. Even before Babe Ruth first tried to leverage with the Yankees for an unthinkable $100,000 salary back in the 1920s, a ballplayer trying to make as much money as he can out of his limi- ted time in the sun has been a subject for public opprobrium. When Joe DiMaggio held out for something more than $25,000 in 1938, Jacob Ruppert, the owner at the time, told the public, "DiMaggio is an ungrateful young man, and is very unfair to his teammates, to say the least" — and the public bought it. When DiMaggio finally gave in, boos rained down on his every at bat. It wasn't until his big hitting streak in 1941 that DiMaggio's reputation recovered and his apotheosis into the "greatest living ballplayer" began. The dollar figures change, but the story does not. 別再討論洋基給阿肉的新合約值不值得了，這根本不關你們(球迷)的事。從前貝比魯斯跟狄馬喬也都提出過令人非議的高薪要求，後者不僅被當時的洋基老闆公開幹樵，也被洋基迷噓得很慘，但是在1941年他創下了大聯盟連續56場安打紀錄後，他變成了"當代最偉大的球員"，薪水金額不再是重點。 Nor should anyone feel that the Yankees caved in some way, that Rodriguez got the better of them, or that Hank Steinbrenner is softheaded or soft-hearted. We can't assume that businessmen run their businesses rationally or with fore- sight — just look at the subprime mortgage crisis for evidence of that. But it seems likely that the Yankees know if they can afford the freight, and can also project how they might benefit from the signing based on how they already have benefited from having Rodriguez these last four years — in ticket sales (the Yankees have set a new high in attendance each year of the third baseman's tenure), in merchandise and other licenses, and in revenues from YES. 沒有人該覺得洋基屈服、阿肉佔便宜，或是新的史老闆心軟不強勢。看看二級房貸的危機就知道，我們不該假設生意人做生意都理智且有前瞻性；但是洋基球團似乎早就清楚簽下這張新約是有賺不賠，畢竟有阿肉的這四年，商機業績蒸蒸日上。 If someday it proves to be the case that the Yankees could not absorb Rodri- guez's demands, if they become insolvent and go through a Florida Marlins- esque period and sell off their veterans, we can all laugh about how foolishly the Steinbrenners tossed away the game's most lucrative franchise on one egomaniacal player. Until then, we need not care. If Rodriguez plays well, he'll be worth whatever he's getting within the range of huge, gross national products' worth of money. If he hits .220, grows fat, misses endless games with injuries, then he won't be. But to try to draw lines within the amount of money he's getting and say, "Well, he hit .290 with 30 home runs, so that was worth $20 million but not a penny more" is a pedantic, pointless exercise. It would be like trying to decide whether A-Rod would be worth all the angels that fit on the head of a pin if he hit 40 home runs a year, or all the angels plus one if he hit 50. It's a large amount of money no matter how you slice it, and un- less you sign your checks with the name "Steinbrenner," it shouldn't matter at all. 如果將來有那麼一天，球團發現再也無法負擔的起阿肉，而改走馬林魚路線，到那時候，我們再取笑史公子也不遲。在那之前，我們無須(替球團)擔心。假如阿肉持續打出好成績，當然財源滾滾進；假如他打擊率降到二成，變胖了、或是因傷無法出賽，當然球團就沒賺那麼多。但是把阿肉的薪資與他的打擊作線性函數，去計算 "他打擊率二成九、30支全壘打，所以只能拿20 M，多一分也不行"─這又未免迂腐且無意義。 What does matter is performance on the field, and whether Rodriguez's elephan- tine payday will prevent the Yankees from spending the additional monies neces- sary to surround him with a winning cast as no one player, no matter how good, can drive a weak team to the playoffs. (Babe Ruth took plenty of Octobers off, and so did Ted Williams and — juiced or not — Barry Bonds.) We would expect this would not be the case, as it supposedly was with Rodriguez's previous employer, the Texas Rangers. We would expect, though, that the Yankees owner- ship would understand that nothing correlates with attendance and other re- venues like winning. Stars may sell a thousand extra seats. Winning sells hun- dreds of thousands. Again, if the Yankees have acted against their own self- interest and bought themselves a decade of A-Rod breaking records on 72–90 teams, the money becomes important — not because of Rodriguez's greed, but because of the team's folly in giving it to him. 真正重要的是球場內的表現，以及阿肉是否能一肩扛起帶領球隊近季後賽的使命，我們希望，洋基的老闆能夠了解沒有任何事物與出賽數，其他營收，如贏球有關；球星或許有助票房，但是贏球的票房更會加上百倍。如果洋基違背了自我利益，因為這紙合約帶來了阿肉的新全壘打紀錄，但是團隊成績積弱不振，那麼這筆錢就變得重要，但不是因為阿肉的貪心，而是因為球團的愚昧，給了他這筆錢。 Obviously the Yankees won't get 10 more years like 2007 out of Rodriguez. Not only is Rodriguez not consistent at that level, but he's also 32, no longer young in baseball terms. In the next few years, his ability to hit for average is going to go, probably at roughly the same time as his speed. He'll walk a little more, strikeout a little more. His defense, already far from Robinson- ian (Brooks, that is), will decay, perhaps necessitating a move to first base. Fortunately, Rodriguez should continue to hit for enough power that he'll be an asset across the diamond, especially by the standards of recent Yankees first basemen. As to whether Rodriguez will help them win a World Series or not, he probably will at some point — but maybe he won't. The Yankees have won World Series with stars that were hot and won with stars that were cold. It's a team effort. If A-Rod hits and no one follows him, the Yankees will probably lose in the playoffs. If he doesn't hit and no one picks him up, as has happened the last few years — well, we know how that works out. 當然洋基不會十年都能擁有2007年的阿肉，畢竟他32歲了。未來幾年，他或許無法再維持過去的打擊水準，而腳程也會隨著變慢；或許他會等到更多保送，或是領到多一點三振；而他的守備，也會漸漸退化。或許洋基未來需要將他移到一壘──以近幾年洋基的一壘砲水準來看，阿肉應該能夠勝任愉快。他或許能幫助球隊贏得世界大賽，或許不能；畢竟洋基曾經在眾球星火熱或冷卻的狀態下都贏過冠軍。說到底，棒球是團隊運動，只有阿肉一人打得好，球隊也可能會輸；如果他打不好，而且其他人也打不好......結果從這幾年的季後賽就看出來了。 Until any of these things come to pass, and are proved to be true or untrue, we can't put a real valuation on A-Rod's salary, or say with any meaning whe- ther it's too high or too low. All the words spilled about the contract amount to nothing more than a kind of voyeurism directed at the man with the biggest deal. 直到上述情況發生，並且被證實是真是假，我們才能真正評估阿肉這紙合約，說它過高或過低。 ※Mr. Goldman writes the Pinstriped Bible for yesnetwork.comand is the author of "Forging Genius," a biography of Casey Stengel. -- 宇宙裡的微小塵埃 http://www.wretch.cc/album/AllyDai -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 203.71.94.31

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