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I don't think I did anything to change how my invoices appear in emails but something is different now and it is confusing my customers.
The old email had a short message and a "View Invoice" button. The button displayed a detailed invoice using the template I have set up in QBO to clearly show the item name, description, quantity and prices. It is very easy for anyone to look at and understand.
Now the email has the short message along with an abbreviated version of the invoice. This abbreviated version is what is throwing my customers. The organization of the data for each line item is not very professional. The main issue is that the quantity is just floating on its own out in space between line items without any kind of label to let the customer know that it is in fact the quantity.
I would like to make this abbreviated invoice look like my standard invoice or remove it altogether. Is there a way to do either of these?
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I was able to simplify the invoice email using QB!
Go to Account Settings | Sales | Online Delivery
This is a very simple email that explains to our customers in the header that the invoice is attached as a .pdf file. See attached image.
I was super excited to find this resolution to our problem of listing the line item detail in the contents of the invoice email. Hope it works for you
Hey there adamDFKC,
Welcome to the Community. I'm happy to offer my assistance with your invoices.
You may want to first check your custom forms list to see if you can find your original layout or recreate it. This can be done by:
1. Clicking the Gear icon in the top right corner.
2. Choose Custom Form Styles under Your Company.
3. Make sure the desired template is in the list or click New style in the top right corner.
To use your custom template when sending invoices:
1. Click the create icon (+) in the top right corner.
2. Select Invoice.
3. Choose Customize at the bottom of the page.
4. Pick your invoice template from the list.
5. Fill in the necessary invoice information.
6. Click Save and Send or Save and Close.
Another option available is to import an invoice template from Word. This article will walk you through the steps of this process: https://community.intuit.com/articles/1145368-how-to-import-invoice-template-styles-from-word.
You'll be back to business in no time. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any other questions.
Hey Adam (@adamDFKC),
Do you have your original custom invoice set as the default in the Custom Form Styles menu?
I made a brief video about this last week - you may want to remove some data fields so the quantity category is put in a more relevant place. I try to eliminate as many categories as I can so everything looks clean.
Hope this helps!
Not trying to be rude, but I think you've both missed the point of the original post. I have the same problem. It's not the invoice that has changed, becuase my custome invoice template still shows up as a PDF attachment to the email. It's the content of the email itself that has changed.
This is what the email used to look like:
Now the email looks like this, even though I made no changes to anything in the system:
I have the same problem. It just started happening today. Plus, I've lost the ability to print my invoice copy from within the Save/Send preview window.
What is going on??? This has nothing to do with our templates. When i print out my invoice using the print dragdown it looks the same as my template.
The worst thing is that it's confusing to the customer. There are just too many options here that don't make sense:
They see an unattractive version of my logo with the company name in large letters below my already self-contained logo.
Next, a big blue box with the dollar amount HUGE inside, the due date, a black "Print or Save" button, and the words Powered by Quick Books. Sorry but they DON'T need to be smacked in the fact with your branding. What are you, Vistaprint?
Then, there is the main information from the invoice in bleah letters on a gray background.weird truncated version of the invoice
Then, below that ANOTHER black box that says Print or Save that opens the invoice in a web browser.
Then, the QBO LOGO AGAIN with a bunch of All rights reserved CRAP and links to their privacy, security and Terms of Service.
Then FINALLY, at the very bottom, a viewable PDF of my invoice the way I created it.
Quickbooks, I am VERY unhappy with this change. It looks ridiculous and unprofessional and the fact that there was no notification for it, frankly, sucks. I am not paying for this service so you can splash your brand all over my invoices.
@csalvian, thanks for your input, you're not being rude at all. I appreciate you sending the visual for context.
@adamDFKC, @Bluechute, @csalvian, I am reaching out to my Product Manager colleague here in Mountain View to see if I can get you some insight into this format change. Please standby!
I just sent a couple invoices this morning and it appears as though it is now fixed. That is wonderful, but like the others, I'm wondering why Intuit chose to make this change without any consultation or notification to the users. Was this an isolated incident to a few accounts? Or was this widespread? Personally I would like the ability to modifiy the email template to suit my own needs without relying on what Intuit feels my emails should look like.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
My invoices still look like they did on Tuesday. Way too much going on. My logo which already includes my company name at the top, and then below that, my full company name (as incorporated, which I don't use in most correspondance) in giant letters. Plus all the Quickbook free advertising. My clients don't need to know how I do my accounting. It's just all very unprofessional and makes me rethink all the high scores I've given Quickbooks on their surveys.
To clarify, it's not the physical invoice that's changed, but the formatting of the email that is sent. Definitely need a workaround.
Thank you all for the feedback.
We've updated the invoice email so that you can:
To answer the concerns directly above:
We definitely hear the feedback that we can do a better job communicating changes like this more proactively in the future. Appreciate your patience, and thank you all again for the feedback - this will help us continue to make QuickBooks better for small businesses worldwide.
Other than the text that goes into the email, I don't see anywhere in the program that gives me the ability to customise the email content (i.e. colors, logos, etc.). Can you tell me how I can accomplish this please?
Hey @csalvian thanks for following up. Here is how you can do it.
Click the Gear icon > Custom Form Styles.
1) To change the design on an existing template, click Edit.
2) Or, to start a new style, click New style on the upper left, and then select Invoice, Estimate, or Sales Receipt
3) Changes made on the Design and Content tabs will apply to both the invoice and the invoice email. e.g. color, turning on/off business name
4) From the Design tab, select Try other colors
5) Select the desired color
6) You will be able to see your new color applied to your email in your Send email preview when you send your next invoice
We are currently making an update to the preview on the Email tab so that you will be able to see the updates directly while making your changes
Hey @csalvian,
We wrote a tutorial on how to do each of these functions and best practices for customizing invoices. Hope this helps!
I was happy to find this thread as the new email layout was confusing me as well.
Is it possible to turn off the invoice details/preview within the email??
I don't necessarily have a problem with the message portion of the email, but the invoice details look ridiculous.
My formatted invoice template still looks great, but the invoice formatting is not reflected in the invoice details/preview found below the 'print or save button.'
There are no lines, and the information is double spaced and organized in a confusing manner.
This seems to be the same point made by other posters.
If it were possible to turn off the invoice details or revise the appearance of this information, I believe many of us would be very happy.
Thank you for taking the time to address these concerns.
Hello, Jason4.
I appreciate you bringing your request forward here in the Community.
To see additional customization for invoicing within QuickBooks Online, I recommend leaving feedback for our Product Development Team. Your ideas and suggestions can be entered directly through your account by clicking the Gear icon in the top right corner, then select Feedback. This is the best way to ensure meaningful updates are added in the future.
I wish you and your business continued success. I'm here if you have any other questions.
PLEASE go back to the original email options!!! attached.
also attached - your new email with all kinds of random junk in it.
I ahave spent well over 2 hours in 2 calsls weoith tech support trying to fix this to no avail.
and you rolled this oput with NO notice in the heat of tax season!!
I am now UNABLE to email inovices to clients.
you sent me an email saying:
"• Better highlight your brand as a small business and customize your emails. You can now choose your color, highlight your logo, and choose to hide/show invoice details. Preferences you've set for your invoice template now carry over to your invoice email."
this does NOT work. I sent you an example of the random verbiage that is showing up - it makes impossible now to email an invoice. PLEASE address this issue directly!
thanks kate
Hey @kateherman,
Thanks for letting us know about your experience. I am actually reaching out to some project managers from that team and hopefully we can get some more clarification.
In the meantime, would you mind sending a screenshot of what you are experiencing?
i did - but here it is again. I would be happy to show you on my computer if you would care to give me a call. in 2 following posts i will also upload the actual invoice, and a screen shot of the invoice on my side . can't add multiple files here!
here is the actual invoice
here is the screenshot
Glad to see everyone else sharing in my misery. I have called them 5 times already and sent in numerous negative feedback reports. This new layout is completely unprofessional. I've got missing placeholder images, logo (already with company name) on top of duplicated company name, text overload, layout/alignment/centering problems, two links to review and pay - what???, quickbook logos everywhere. All of our invoices are about to be sent May 1. I cannot believe anyone there thought this was a good idea!!!
Please fix ASAP!!! I wasn't planning on moving my invoices to another service but if this is not fixed I do not have a choice.
First off I guarantee NO ONE asks for this:
With security always top of mind, we've heard feedback from some users that they'd like to see "Powered by QuickBooks" to lend credibility to the link in the email, and especially for invoices that customers can pay online
The new email template is horrendous, either provide and option to revert to the old layout or allow for html editing so your lack of development/testing can be fixed by someone with attention to detail. I would never send anything to my clients that look this way, but currently I may not have a choice. This needs to be fixed ASAP!
got another email today from Julian C:
Thank you for your response. I have forwarded your concerns to our team. The invoice template (PDF) you use to bill is an Imported Style. Settings you've set for your Standard/Master template carry over to your invoice email. For instance if you wanted to remove the Product/Service name on your invoice and invoice template, you can edit the Standard template (Gear Icon > Custom Form Styles > Edit Standard template). NOT TRUE - ALL IS REMOVED EXCEPT DESCRIPTION. THE WORDS PRODUCT/SERVICE AND RAMDON HOURLY RATES AND TIME STILL SHOW UP IN EMAIL
Also, We offer a total of 3 Online Delivery invoice email templates. Were you able to look into the other Online Delivery options? YES TRIED THEM ALL - SAME RESULT - NO CHANGE TO EMAIL
Gear Icon > Account and Settings > Sales tab > Online Delivery:
• Online Invoice
• HTML (see attached screenshot) SCREENSHOT SEEMS TO SHOW OLD EMAILS BEFORE THIS "IMPRVOVEMENT"
• Plain Text (see attached screenshot)
*Note - The Online Invoice allows your customers to pay you directly using the "Review and pay" button and HTML and Plain text do not have "Review and pay" buttons.
Please let me know if this helps.
Julian C.
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Well, if you're reading this, that means you are someone I trust! :)
I had to make my blog private today, sadly, because of a couple of very, very, VERY disturbing comments that were left on my work-out blog. Since I link between the two (blogs), I decided to make this one private for now as well...just to be on the safe side. Even though I HATE to be "private" and therefore potentially miss ministry opportunities as well as the ability to make friendship with people from all over the world...I can't compromise the safety of my family or me...and today was the first time in all my years of blogging (going on 5 years now!) that I've ever felt threatened. Yuk!
So anyhow, thanks for being a reader and my friend! I'm so glad that I've been able to get to know you all, and hopefully have encouraged and inspired you at some time!
I know I've been slacking MAJORLY on updating this lately...but such is life. If there is anything I've learned in 2010, it's that my FAMILY comes FIRST....and right now, they need me!
Love you all!
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Well, if you're reading this, that means you are someone I trust! :)
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- Dee said...
I am so sorry to hear about those terrible comments you received. Someone thought in their sick mind that they were really cute. I also am disappointed that the general public does not have access to your blog because that is how I found you when I was wondering about P90X. That being said, I totally understand your actions, and I would have done the same thing. Safety is the first concern in all things. I just read the challenge over on your P90X blog- I am not going to enter the contest, but I will certainly try to do without sugar for the next month- except for Thanksgving day alone.
- Teresa said...
Jen~I hate it that someone was nasty to you! I mean...YOU!!...who could be that low? I'm glad you went private instead of being done altogether. I LOVE reading your blog and don't know what I'd do w/o it. LOL!! I'm here and still reading my friend! Love ya!!


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A long running drainage issue on the south edge of Emmetsburg is headed towards resolution following the filing of a drainage petition Tuesday. An informal hearing of parties involved in Drainage District 180 Lateral 30 during the weekly meeting of the Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors brought about a plan to end a long-standing problem in the area next to the Emmetsburg Industrial Park.
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Landowner Roger Chism pointed out that he felt Iowa Lakes Electric needed to tile its property to take the water away. "Tile it to the county tile and get the water off the ground, use the existing tile," Chism said. "I don't believe that tile is overloaded."
It was pointed out that the west side of the Industrial Park had never been addressed for drainage, and that should have happened before any lots were sold.
"Your drainage attorney said that the power company did nothing wrong down there,"?Emmetsburg City Administrator John Bird said. "Emmetsburg Community Development Committee put in storm water drainage for a great majority of the park, to the east, to capture what they could."
Supervisor Ron Graettinger pointed out that drainage to the west should have been addressed by ECDC as well.
"We know the problems, we need solutions,"?Board member Ed Noonan said, trying to keep the discussion on track.
Bird stated that the city supported either option. "We will do whatever we can to assist this."
Kris Ausborn, representing ECDC, noted that the group had agreed in discussion would put in the earthen berm and the tile to the detention basin. Ausborn also then stated that as a trustee of the Mahaney Trust, owner of some of the farmland that would be drained onto through the preferred option, he would be opposed to that option due to loss of farmland from production.
"Iowa Lakes Electric is not in favor of the berm from a liability standpoint, and we will take no role of any type in the berm,"?stated Mark Walsh, representing ILEC.
"So if ECDC?tiles this, then none of us would be involved?" asked Jim Coakley, one of the original petitioners.
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Palo Alto County Engineer Joel Fantz pointed out that if the private tile and berm were installed, the berm would act as a boundary, and the Coakley's and Ron Wirtz, two petitioners, would not be able to drain their properties, which were often flooded out.
"If there is no berm, then everyone could put their water in this tile line, but then they would all pay a share."
Fantz explained that if a petition for a new drainage district were filed, the tile could be installed as a private tile, and then turned over to the county. "With a private agreement, this could move forward fairly quickly."
"I won't do it privately,"?Chism stated emphatically. "I've had enough dealings with the City of Emmetsburg. I won't do it."
A preliminary cost for the private tile earlier this summer of $23,000 was estimated to have risen over the summer months.
"Why doesn't ECDC just pay for it?" Supervisor Jerry Hofstad asked.
"We have $20,000,"?Ausborn answered.
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In a preliminary ruling last week, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg ruled without explanation in favor of Apple Computer and their quest to discover the identities of those leaking product information. The company had demanded that Apple Insider and O'Grady's PowerPage reveal the names of confidential sources who provided information about Asteroid. This week, Judge Kleinberg explained:
Unlike the whistleblower who discloses a health, safety, or welfare hazard affecting all, or the government employee who reveals mismanagement or worse by public officials, the movants [defendants] are doing nothing more than feeding the public's desire for information.
The defendants had sought from refuge from contempt charges, jail time, and a potential life transforming experience under California's shield law. Judge Kleinberg did not address the issue of whether or not the defendants were journalists, rather he deemed that point largely irrelevant. As a result, the Shield law itself did not fare so well.
Easily overstated in its power, "[t]he description 'shield law' conjures up visions of broad protection and sweeping privilege. The California shield law, however, is unique in that it affords only limited protection. It does not create a privilege for newspeople, rather it provides an immunity from being adjudged in contempt.
Based on the language and the facts presented, it is far from clear that Mr. O'Grady qualifies for relief from the subpoena on the grounds advanced. Whether he fits the definition of a journalist, reporter, blogger, or anything else need not be decided at this juncture for this fundamental reason: there is no license conferred on anyone to violate criminal laws
That is the issue at least for the Court did the defendants violate the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (USTA), through misappropriation, the "acquisition of a trade secret of another person who knows or has reason to know that the the trade secret was acquired by improper means?" They should have known they were breaking the law, case closed, insert .
Following that line of reasoning, it would seem then that the mainstream media furor over this case is largely an overreaction. Reading the blurb from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the organization providing legal representation for the defendants tends to support that idea, though they put the best face on it. EFF staff attorney Kurt Opsahl was unsurprisingly dismayed at today's ruling.
We're disappointed that the trial court ignored the Supreme Court's requirement that seeking a journalist's confidential sources be a "last resort" in civil discovery. Instead, the court asserts a wholesale exception to the journalist's privilege when the information is alleged to be a trade secret.
If the bulwark of the defense is simply delaying the inevitable subpoena, it would appear less than formidable. Instead, the issue would seem to be one of protected, or unprotected, speech. Kasper Jade, of Apple Insider, thinks differently regarding the behavior of Apple Legal and his website.
Apple is using this case as a desperate attempt to silence the masses of bloggers and online journalists that it cannot control but feels it can intimidate. Online publications are typically not backed by commercially funded organizations--a weak spot Apple most certainly recognized prior to filing its suits. The company hopes that it can stop or chill the Apple-news industry with its threats.
Kasper probably should have just invoked the anthropomorphic spirit of information and been done with it, rather than make Apple into the bully, though that does not seem to take much effort. Yet, there is something bothersome about this ruling: the seemingly unquestioning value ascribed to the proprietary trade information and its place in society.
What underlies this decision is the publishing of information that at this early stage of litigation fits squarely within the definition of trade secret. The right to keep and maintain proprietary information as such is a right which the California legislature and courts have long affirmed and which is essential to the future of technology and innovation generally.
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UK actor Sam Riley is to play the title role in Iain Softley's epic adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe which is being developed by Berlin-based Egoli Tossell Film New GmbH (ETF) with Spain's Morena Films as a European co-production with partners from Belgium and the UK.
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(CNN) - Full public tours of the White House don't appear to be coming back any time soon, but President Obama says he wants to figure out a way certain school groups can still gain access to the famous address.
In an interview with ABC, Obama said the unpopular move to suspend the tours in the wake of automatic spending cuts "was not- a decision that went up to the White House." Still, Obama said he wants to find a way partial tours can resume.
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The Secret Service had no comment on the president's statements.
- CNN's Dan Lothian, Adam Aigner-Treworgy, and Lesa Jansen contributed to this report.
Making the Sequester "as painful as possible". Compare the costs of one day of White House tours as compared to one flight of Air Force 1 to a posh Florida resort.
Anyways, this is just another barrack back-peddle and another opportunity to blame the OTHER guys.
Lets see the Presidents Budget. Lets have him send it to the Senate and the house for votes.
It's not the President's JOB to present a budget – that job falls to the House & Senate, and if he DID present a budget your string pullers would tell you that he's trying to do the job of the Senate and is therefore a DICTATOR! Honestly, if your feigned outrage wasn't so entertaining it would be sad. The house sends a pork-laden, gouge the poor/elderly budget to the Senate who tries to make it a bit more palatable, and the rethug minority in the Senate filibusters it out of existence.
"Do you have 2 million dollars to cough up to pay the Secret Service? If you do, please mail your check to the Treasury Department."
Someone offered to do just that, and it was rejected by the White House. Please try to keep up.
Not exactly. Republicans offered to *pay the salaries* of the Secret Service agents, which was correctly rejected. You can send extra money to the Treasury anytime you wish. You should already know that. Right wingers have been suggeting to liberals that they can overpay their taxes if they so desire for a few years now. Keep it up, you hear. We'll edumacate you yet.
Quoting an article from CNN shows how insulated you are from facts. Social Security and Medicare are insurance that we pay into expecting the coverage to be there when we retire. They are both going broke because the Govt mis allocates the $'s they take from us. When you listen to the parroting liberal media spout the same old tired propaganda from the Dems trying to scare people then you are the type of low information voter the Dems need to hold power.
"It's not the President's JOB to present a budget "
Malory, you might want to bone up on your Govt law. The President is required by LAW to present an annual budget by Feb 1st. This President has chosen to ignore that silly requirement and will present his on April 1st, after he crticizes the house budget. And btw, last year his budget was soundely voted upon in both the house and the senate and guess how many votes yes votes it received. The answer : zero, none, nada.
Malory, the administration is required to present a budget for the agencies of the Govt to the Congress by Feb 10th of each year. This budget is then supposed to be deliberated by the various committees in the house and Senate. The Senate and the House then prepare and vote on their own budgets and they go to a conference where the differences are hammered out and then its sent back to the president for his approval. The Senate under Harry Reid has not produced a budget in 4 years.
I say it again, lets see the Administrations budget, lets see the senate produce and vote for a budget !!!
@Rob Please dont insult my intelligence. I read articles from CNN, Times and other credible sources as well as news channels, so what I speak of is directly from these articles. And if you have a problems with what I read or quoted then maybe you should email one of those sites and plead your case. I am not here to insult or ridicule anyone. I dont watch or read Fox News and to me thats the only "liberal media" your accusing me of listening to. I am a democrat and I support Obama.. if you have a problem with that then dont respond to my posts sir.


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November 29, 2012
Overthinking It
How Will Josh Hamilton Age?
At some point this winter, a team with money to spend and an opening in the outfield for a big left-handed bat will make Josh Hamilton a very wealthy man. With the Winter Meetings approaching and some big names already off the board, the baseball world is wondering "When?" and "How Wealthy?" Hamilton's home run totals and 2010 MVP season make him one of the most enticing talents on the market, but his age, injury record, history of substance abuse, and performance away from the hitter's parks he's called home give general managers plenty of reasons to think twice before committing to a long-term contract.
We can tack on yet another concern to that long list of red flags: Hamilton is not a patient hitter. Over the course of his career, he's struck out at an above-average rate and walked at a (barely) below-average rate, despite the fact that pitchers have plenty of incentive to stay away from his power. Last season, his tendency to swing (and chase) grew much more pronounced, while his contact percentage plummeted.
Because Hamilton doesn't add any value via the walk, most of his offensive performance hinges on what happens when he makes contact. The outcome of a batted ball is dependent on two things: speed, and quality of contact. Speed peaks early—perhaps even before the age at which Hamilton made it to the majors—but the early 30s are when bat speed starts to slip and reaction time suffers. If Hamilton had better command of the strike zone, his ability to take walks could compensate for his inevitable declines in other areas. As it is, his offensive value is closely tied to skills that soon start to fade in free agents of a certain age.
Earlier this year, I wrote about the six-year, $85.5 million extension a somewhat similar player, Adam Jones, received from the Orioles. Jones walks less often than Hamilton and hits for less power, but both players generally fit the low-walk, high-power profile, with roughly the same career strikeout rate.
To see what effect a low walk rate might have on how a player ages, I looked for hitters with power production similar to Jones' through May (and, as it happens, Hamilton's) and divided them into two groups, one for those who walked in less than 10 percent of their plate appearances and another for those who made it over that mark.
What I found was that after a certain age, the low-walk hitters aged worse than the high-walk group. Not only did their production per plate appearance suffer a steeper drop, but their playing time tailed off more quickly, too. Because Jones was still just 26 when his extension was signed, I concluded that despite his impatient profile, the deal made sense for Baltimore:
Hamilton's employer, however, won't have that luxury: his prime production is already past, and his decline phase is about to begin in earnest. According to BP's John Perrotto, Hamilton's asking price as of earlier this month was seven years and $175 million. Here are Hamilton's statistics from 2012, along with the stats projected for his next seven seasons by BP's projection system, PECOTA:
These projections don't incorporate the potential effects of Hamilton's past struggles with substance abuse or build in any risk of a relapse, since we can't quantify those factors precisely. Suffice it to say that if we could, they wouldn't improve his odds of aging well. Even without accounting for those variables, though, PECOTA projects that Hamilton would be close to a replacement-level player by the end of the seven-year contract he covets, totaling 15.3 WARP over the life of the deal.
If we set the current going rate for a free-agent win at $5 million and factor in a conservative five percent annual inflation rate, a win would cost $7 million on the open market by the end of the deal. All told, that 15.3 WARP would translate to just over $85 million in value. Given the recent increase in league-wide revenue from television contracts and the CBA changes that limit spending in other areas, the inflation rate over that span may significantly exceed five percent, but even if we peg the average value of a free-agent win over the next seven seasons at $7 million, the total value climbs to only $107 million or so.
PECOTA bases part of its projection on how comparable players have performed in the past. While the pool of players compared to Hamilton includes some encouraging names, two of his top comps—Ken Griffey Jr. and Andruw Jones—lived the sort of nightmare scenarios that can't be far from the minds of Hamilton's suitors. Both players were superstars through age 30, but a combination of injuries, poor conditioning, and eroding skills made them only marginally productive after they'd passed that point. Griffey played through age 40 but accumulated only 8.2 WARP of his 79.2 career total after age 31, while Jones has amassed just 2.5 WARP in his age-32-35 seasons. Hamilton isn't doomed to suffer a similar fate, but those examples remind us of how quickly a productive player can become an albatross.
Earlier this week, Buster Olney wrote that the market for Hamilton has been slow to develop, noting that teams appear to be wary of extending an offer longer than four years. A four-year contract would take Hamilton through 2016 and, according to our conservative model, be worth just over $64 million. Raise the four-year average value of a win to $7 million, and the most reasonable sum rises to $84 million, or $21 annually through age 35—coincidentally or not, the same age at which PECOTA expects Hamilton to be an above-average player for the final time. A team on the October bubble might be willing to pay a premium for his short-term production, but for most clubs, that looks like a prudent place to draw the line.
Colin Wyers provided research assistance for this story.
A version of this story originally appeared on ESPN Insider .
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Very curious as to what Hamilton's projections would look like if he'd started his career at an earlier age. For example, if he'd have out up the same exact numbers but started his learning curve at age 21-22 -- when his intrinsic talent level says he should have -- what would his projected WARP look like? I recognize the flaws in this approach, but I do think its worth looking at.
Nov 29, 2012 14:54 PM
The challenge here is that the projections highly value age. So had Hamilton's first full season line of .304/.371/.530 come when he was 22, PECOTA would have looked at that and seen one of the best all-time seasons for a 22-yo. His comps would have been Griffey and ARod and the like. When those numbers come at age 27, there is a far larger pool of players who have put up those figures at that age.
Nov 29, 2012 15:34 PM
I understand that challenge, but I think tht Hamilton's case is so unique that it may warrant looking at it as such for the following reasons:
Nov 29, 2012 16:23 PM
You've confused controversial with ridiculous.
Nov 30, 2012 09:30 AM
He didn't say "GOAT" - he talked only about talent. And in terms of pure baseball tools many scouts and front office people have said he is among the most talented prospects they ever saw. Fast. Rocket arm. Off the charts raw power. Played center field to boot.
Dec 02, 2012 13:14 PM
This conversation may get buried, but I definitely stand by my statement. Amazing that in all the Hamilton hoopla, few people really grasp what it is that Hamilton has achieved. Ignoring completely the substance abuse issues, this is a guy who jumped from A ball to the major leagues with a three year gap (!) in the middle. Most players say they lose their timing if they don't picka bat up for a week; he went years without a bat in his hand and stepped into the majors and became an amazing, MVP-worthy player.
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Few men are as passionate and dedicated to the sport of powerlifting as 100% Raw's President Paul Bossi. Paul is the driving force behind 100% Raw's journey into federation prominence.
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Muscle and Brawn. Paul, thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedule to answer a few questions. Tell me about your background. How did you get involved with 100% Raw powerlifting. And how were you involved with the sport of powerlifting before becoming President of 100% Raw?
Paul Bossi. I have been lifting since I was 12 years old. I wanted to be a professional football player so I lifted to help me in my quest which I fell short of. I started competing in meets in 1988 with the APA and WNPF from 1992-2000. I have won a World Championship each year since 1992 a current streak of 17 straight years in 6 different organizations.
I was the North Carolina State Chairman running meets for AAU in North Carolina in 1997 thru 2000 and was on the National board when the big spilt happened. I went with Spero Tshontikidis to help support him in forming his new federation 100% RAW in 1999. In 2003 Spero went back into the Military for active duty and asked me if I wanted to take over and run the federation. I accepted the offer and worked very hard to build it to where it is today.
I could have never brought the federation to where it is today if it were not for the great people who have supported me over the past 6 years. I feel you are only as good as the people who surround you and I have been surrounded by many great people. I would like to list them all but I would need a few pages, but to any of you who are reading this thank you for you support and God Bless.
Muscle and Brawn. In the 10 years you've been with 100% Raw, have the challenges of running a fed changed? And has the sport of powerlifting changed?
Paul Bossi. In the past 10 years in which I have been involved with 100% RAW Powerlifting Federation the sport has changed so much. Back in 1999 the word RAW did not mean anything because there were so many assisted/equipped lifters and so few (RAW) non-equipped lifters. There were no RAW only competitions and you would be lucky to see 2-3 adults lifting RAW. You would see teens and females lifting RAW only because teens did not know about the equipment and it was so uncomfortable for the women to use a shirt. Most organizations did not offer records for RAW lifters or special divisions for RAW lifters so everyone was grouped together. So if you wanted to be compete you needed to wear equipment just to try to be competitive.
Then in 1999 when 100% RAW was formed it gave lifters a choice. Our first meets had incredible support with more than 100 lifters in each of our meets. From 2000-2005 many of the federations in our country did not and would not offer RAW divisions or records for those lifters. In 2006 you started seeing almost every federation start adding RAW divisions and some added RAW records. These are the same people and federations who laughed at us just a few years earlier. They saw the trend changing and lifters wanting to lift RAW so they realized if they wanted to continue to keep the federations running they needed to change with the times or see the bus pass them by.
RAW lifters now at hitting numbers that equipped lifters could not get 10 years ago. If you look at the top 100 in PLUSA from 10 years ago and compare them to the results of the top RAW lifters of 2008-2009 you will see that many of these RAW lifters will be right up there with the assisted/equipped lifters of 10 years ago.
The biggest challenge in running a federation these days are that there are so many organizations in our country there is no validity in becoming a National Champion. Also due to the fact there are the 40 different federations in the USA, meets are smaller for everybody no one wants to travel because somebody is running a meet either sanctioned or not in their backyard. Lifters have choices which are good, but this is bad when it comes to credibly or a meet or title you may have won.
I do not care what others are doing, I am just focused on our federation and making it the best I can for our lifters. We run very organized events, use good equipment, give out the absolute best awards, keep our website updated and treat our lifters like family. This has been our recipe for success over the past decade.
Muscle and Brawn. Paul, I want to talk about Prohormones. 10 years ago, prohormone use was in its infancy. Now, you can hardly go to a bodybuilding site and not see prohormone talk. But I don't see as much chatter about prohormones on powerlifting sites. Do you feel prohormone use is still prevalent among lifters in federations that drug test, and has there been any special challenges for you and 100% Raw when it comes to prohormones and drug testing?
Paul Bossi. We had to change our wording on our drug testing policies because of pro-hormones. We used to say if you can buy it at GNC it is legal, but then guys were testing positive for steroids. Now some are trying to use GNC as a scape goat and that is not fair. They would test positive and say they were taking a product from GNC so that had to be changed. At that time GNC sold pro-hormones but I do not want to say that they did anything wrong because I know first hand they have a group that tests their products and makes sure they are safe for competition. Our new wording is that you are responsible for what you put into your body. If you decide to take a product make sure you do your homework and sure it is safe to use and it does not come up positive. Lots of lifters today think there are drug free because they do not consider themselves on steroids because it is a pro-hormone. But if you look at the label and read it you will see that the ingredients in these products are indeed steroid. I remember reading a bottle of M1D which said it was metheltestosterone which is a steroid. When the lifter came up positive for this banned steroid they argued with me saying it was not a steroid. The lifters need to read the label and research the banned drugs if they want to lift in a drug free organization. I think many lifters today will take these products and lift in non-tested organizations.
We have caught more lifters in the past 2-3 years on steroids than we did in the previous 7 years combined. I think this is because the lifters are not aware that pro-hormones are not illegal and take them before getting good advice or doing any research. I feel the pro-hormone epidemic is becoming worse than ever and something needs to be done soon before someone gets killed never mind just failing a drug test. These are basically legal steroids and we all know what the adverse effects are from steroid use. My advice to any lifter out there wanting to pro-hormones make sure you do your homework and research the product thoroughly before purchasing and using it.
Muscle and Brawn. Let's talk about unity. As a follower of powerlifting, it is easy for me to get confused trying to keep up with all the federations. I can't imagine how chaotic the sport must look to a casual fan. What are your thoughts about attempts to unify the sport, and do you realistically see this happening in the near future?
Paul Bossi. As far as Unity goes, good luck. There are too many chiefs and wannabe's in the lifting world. I like that there is variety so lifters have an option to lift RAW, ASSISTED, DRUG FREE OR NOT. But to have 50 so called organizations in our country is totally ridiculous. I will not say a bad word about any of them or try to make us sound better than other organizations either.
We do our thing and try to do our best at it. If lifters chose to lift with us great, if not oh well have fun and maybe some day you can lift with us. The more we try to Unite the more we grow apart. Last year at the WDFPF Worlds the guys from Europe were making fun of all the federations in the USA. I hope to see it all unite one day but I will not hold my breath.
Muscle and Brawn.What are your goals for 100% Raw over the coming years. And any advice for lifters looking at 100% Raw as a fed?
Paul Bossi. I want to continue to promote drug free RAW powerlifting and make 100% RAW into the premier drug free RAW federation in the world. I want to be able to give the lifters a place where they know the playing field is level. We welcome all drug free RAW lifters and I will continue to promote these types of meets.


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2. Apatow is a big old powerful movie maker, so why is he being such a big baby? My guess is that his success lies in channeling the mundane reactions of young and powerless people, so it serves him well to relax into immature thinking patterns. It's creative, lucrative work for him. Easy work! What a lucky guy!
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4. What kind of rich man entertains his NYT interviewer by serving her a take-out spinach omelet with hash browns and hot sauce? Take-out is bad enough, but a take-out omelet? I think an omelet is something you get out of the pan and onto the table in seconds or you just don't serve it at all. And then to make it spinach? What the hell are you trying to say? It would make more sense to serve Oreos and ice cream.
5. Has Maureen Dowd ever indicated her amenability to omelets? Back in February 2010, she forefronted an omelet served to her in a restaurant — so presumably she ordered it — in the presence of Harold Ford Jr. — or maybe it's only what he's eating — and she connected said eggs to the grossness of Harold Ford's feet:
Between bites of an egg-white garden omelet at a bistro in his Union Square neighborhood, Harold Ford Jr. defended himself on pedicures and flip-flops.I'm not reading that as an OK on omelets. I'm reading that as wafting methanethiol. And that was a high-tone, fresh-cooked, designed-for-a-lady egg-white garden omelet, not something that would be dumped into a styrofoam container to be called back to life with hot sauce.
"I either run or try to play basketball every day," he said. "I have severe athlete's foot — feet. I get a foot scrub out of respect for my wife because getting into bed with what I have when I take my socks off isn't respectful to anybody."


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Anezka Drahotova leading the 2013 IAAF World Championships 20km Race Walk
The 18-year-old girl from Rumburk, which nestles on the Czech border with Germany, seems to be able to do everything. Maybe if Anezka Drahotova started to play football or learnt how to play chess, she could add those talents to her portfolio.
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"I expected that the Russian walkers would go to the front in the end and I knew it was going to be tough," said Drahotova, who eventually clocked 1:29:05 to make a huge improvement to her personal best and equal the Czech record of Barbora Dibelkova from 2005.
"I was very surprised with the time. The pace was not that fast at the beginning, so I wanted to go the way I liked and not to squeeze into a group with the others, but I missed a bit of power in the finish. I think my big advantage is that I can go beyond my own (previous) limits."
Briefly, it looked like she would become the youngest man or woman to win a race walking medal at the IAAF World Championships.
"I still felt really great around the 13th kilometre and I told myself that it was not normal, but it was a 20km race and my tiredness started to show at around the 16th and 17th kilometre. I knew then that a medal was only a dream, but I was satisfied with my result."
Still a junior in 2014, her targets for next year are now clear: the IAAF World Race Walking Cup, the IAAF World Junior Championships and the European Championships in that order.
"The seventh place from Moscow was great, and it is very promising, but the gap between myself and the top women is still huge. However, I am glad that my opponents know who I am now. The World Cup in China will be like a rehearsal for me ahead of the rest of the season."
Drahotova, coached by Ivo Pitak, has already decided to go for the junior 10km race in Taicang, together with her twin sister Eliska who finished third in Rieti.
"We were wondering also about the double (and racing in the 20km Race Walk) but we agreed on the junior race as a stepping stone towards the World Junior Championships. In Zurich, at the European Championships, I will focus on a place in the top eight."
Less than a month after her outstanding performance in the Russian capital against the rest of the best in the world, Drahotova showed her ability on the roads as a runner when she was the fastest Czech woman in the well-known Prague Grand Prix 10km international race. The next day she also improved her best over 3000m on the track.
The following weekend, she also won a national team title in cycling while later in September she competed at the World Cycling Championships in Florence, finishing 19th in the junior women's road race over 82.8km.
"She is good at everything which is longer than two minutes," said her coach Pitak.
Into the bargain, it's also worth remembering that she finished seventh in the junior race at the 2012 World Mountain Running Championships in 2012.
With her abundance of talent in different spheres, and despite her success in Moscow, she has demurred from committing 100 per cent to one activity, but race walking looks like the area she will devote more of her resources and talent to in the immediate future.
"Everything is possible but after my results in race walking this year, I think I will focus on this event next year as well. But if all goes well also with my running, why not to try that too? One of the reasons (for concentrating on walking) is that I was a bit disappointed after my result in the Steeplechase in Rieti (where she finished ninth), so I look forward to race walking now," she smiled.
At least, as far as athletics is concerned, she does not think of herself as a cyclist. "We only spend a little time on the bicycle, which helps me during the volume training. I am more an athlete than a cyclist. But cycling is a good motivation for the future."
However, as the only person to compete in both sports' World Championships this year, the inevitable question is how do the two match up?
"You cannot compare them. In race walking, you have to keep a constant pace and hold on. On the other hand, in cycling, you have to estimate the right moment when to give your best performance. One moment you have to push it, and the other, you can rest a bit. I think the most exhausting event for me was in Moscow.
"The next World Championships in athletics are in 2015 and many things can happen in two years. I would also love to improve my PB at the Half Marathon in 2014," said the Czech teenager, who does not have the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen next March in her diary.
"When I look at my results this year, I think I will try it with race walking," she added. "And if I do well also in running events, why not to try those too?"
Zuzana Trojakova for the IAAF