“At some point, ownership has to lead the revenue,” Gerut said. “It doesn’t always occur where your players first start to win and then you start to build around it. Sometimes the ownership has to lead that first. There’s ancillary stuff that I probably know nothing about. I know sometimes that if you build it, fans will come. It doesn’t always have to work out the other way. You don’t always have to get guys at absolute steals in order to keep them.” – Jody Gerut, in a FanHouse article by Tom Krasovic
As the Padres have continued to surprise the baseball world with an National League best 28-18 record, the near constant questions of Adrian Gonzalez’s future have calmed. He’s a Padre, for now, and not many people are thinking about a deadline deal at this point. Gonzalez is still working on a fantastic – from San Diego’s perspective — four year, $9.5 Million deal, and is signed for $4.5M this year. The Padres have a $5.7M option ...
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