I was going to suggest Addison Russell on a cheap deal but I just looked up his numbers and my God he is terrible!
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I was going to suggest Addison Russell on a cheap deal but I just looked up his numbers and my God he is terrible!
Marte has between 30-40 million in surplus value and Waters being a 55 FV prospect has roughly the same amount. So Waters straight up for Marte would be appropriate value.
However, considering the Pirates aren't run very well, I agree with you that the Pirates won't get anyone close to that. They'll likely get back a couple of 50 FV guys instead of playing the market out and getting the value you really want (like good front offices do).
Estimates I’ve seen have Braves around $130 million in committed payroll for 2020, not the near-$140m you cite. In that context, adding the ~$36m for Donaldson and Marte, then unloading Inciarte (or Greene, or both) gets the Braves right around that $155m mark.
Perhaps not likely, but not infeasible.
Not sure Rendon would go there, unless the money was absurd. Unlike last year, there's alot of teams in on the top FA's. There wasnt really alot of them in on Machado/Harper, Harper basically fell into their laps.
Yeah everything I've read has payroll closer to 130 million right now, give or take 2 million.
Spotrac factors in the signing bonus in their 132 million figure, but doesn't factor in the league minimum salaries of pre-arb players like Soroka, Newcomb, Riley, etc, which amounts to about 583,000 a piece. Add up all of those that are on the roster, and you get far closer to 140 million. I've added up all the salaries, projected arb figures, and league minimums and I keep getting a number around 138 million.
Sorry, just realized that I accidently included his luxury tax hit rather than his actual salary for this year. Since we won't be approaching LT territory, that number really doesn't matter. I'm trying to figure out how to format this effectively from a copy/paste, but its just a mess so I deleted it. Still, everything I'm seeing right now leads me to believe that when you factor in signing bonuses and league minimum salaries, our payroll is currently around 138 million.
A lot of those sites track payroll in odd ways. From what I can tell, the Braves budget signing bonuses in the year they are paid.
I posted the updated 2020 payroll in the appropriate thread. No matter what math we use, adding Marte and JD would be an enormous jump in opening day payroll.
ESPN quotes mats owner saying they can’t afford rendon and stras.
I’d hate to see jd in the division