Originally Posted by
clvclv
List your figures please...
Current Commitments:
Freeman - $22,050,000
Melancon - $14,000,000
Folty - $7,500,000 (likely exercised)
Swanson - $3,300,000 (likely exercised)
Jackson - $1,900,000 (likely exercised)
Culberson - $1,800,000 (likely exercised)
Camargo - $1,600,000 (likely exercised)
Acuna - $1,000,000
Ozzie - $1,000,000
Dayton - $800,000 (likely exercised)
Soroka - $600,000
Fried - $600,000
Newcomb - $600,000
Buyouts:
Markakis - $2,000,000
Flowers - $2,000,000
Hamilton - $1,000,000
Teheran - $1,000,000
Assuming Ender's traded, that's $62,750,000 including buyouts. Toss in another $600,000 if you assume one of Wilson/Wright/Weigel/Anderson is in the rotation to begin the season, $600,000 if Riley's on the roster, and another $1,200,000 if you assume two of Minter/Sobotka/Touki/Webb/whomever are in the pen, and you get to $65,150,000 with 17 spots accounted for. There's obviously a question as to whether we owe O'Day $1 million and whether the $1,120,000 we found out was originally due to be paid to Sutter need to be added to those figures (don't recall anyone ever finding verified information as to whether those commitments are on our current books or not). Apparently you're considering some mixture of Julio/Markakis/Flowers/Duvall/Greene as "locks" to be brought back in your calculations. They may well be - just not in the scenario I presented. Maybe you're using the unexplained figure Sportrac has for Melancon? No other source (Cot's/AJC) has it as anything other than $14 million.