We didn't exactly believe your story, Mrs. Shanese. We believed you $200.

You mean it?

I mean, you paid us more than if you'd been telling us the truth and enough more to make it all right.

Good morning and welcome to episode 339 of Effectively Wild with the Daily Podcast from Baseball Perspectus. I'm Sam Miller with Ben Lindbergh.

I hope your weekend was wonderful, Ben.

It was, thank you.

I did not ask if it was wonderful.

Now you know for sure.

So I want to talk about the Alex Rodriguez piece in New York Magazine, New York Magazine.

But first I wanted to ask you, did you see the Denver Post piece on the Rockies Finances?

I was just looking at that right before we started. I saw an excerpt from it and I opened the article to read the rest but have not yet read the entire article.

Oh good, don't look at it. I want to ask you to guess a couple of things.

Okay.

So they actually have a line by line accounting of where they spend their money. They have $170 million in revenue.

I saw the percent devoted to payroll.

Yes, exactly. So half goes to payroll. So that leaves $88 million.

And so I just wanted to get your sense of what you thought they spent on a couple of things.

So how much do you think they spend on minorly player development?

Well, I remember a recent Russell Carlton article where he said that teams spend $20 million on average.

I thought he said I thought it was minorly development. So I guess I'll guess that.

Well, it is $10 million. Although there's $12 million for draft bonuses and international signings.

So it's conceivable that Russell was saying that.

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