What Roughly $26 Million Will Buy You For One Year

by djk royal on Jan 15, 2009 2:13 PM EST

2009 Salaries:

Coco Crisp: $5.75 million plus $.5 million buyout

Kyle Farnsworth: $4.25 million plus $.75 million incentives

Miguel Olivo: $2.7 million plus $.1 million buyout plus incentives

Ho-Ram: $1.8 million plus incentives

Willie Bloomquist: $1.4 million

Esteban German: $1.2 million plus incentives

Mike Jacobs: $3 million estimated arbitratrion amount

John Buck: $3 million estimated arbitratrion amount

Mark Teahen: $3 million estimated arbitratrion amount

Cue the parade now.

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So, you're assuming that Gload gets traded or cut...

and that (amazingly), Dayton feels that keeping BOTH German and Bloomquist on the same roster makes sense. (Not that I’m saying either one isn’t possible, or even likely.)

Man, Buck or Olivo really needs to go. There’s just no sense paying $5.7M for two of the same kind of catcher.

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by Sweep_the_Leg on Jan 15, 2009 2:19 PM EST reply actions

I'm not assuming anything about Gload.

The list I have posted are those GMDM has chosen to pay (or probably will pay) this year. Gload’s contract was locked in by last years uber genius multi year contract.

by djk royal on Jan 15, 2009 2:24 PM EST up reply actions

Haven't we already been through this?

Even I think this kind of list is beating a dead horse now.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 15, 2009 2:28 PM EST reply actions 2 recs

And yet you comment.

by djk royal on Jan 15, 2009 2:39 PM EST up reply actions

Only to say that enough is enough

Not that the sentiment isn’t fair. But we’ve had several posts which have done this.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 15, 2009 2:42 PM EST up reply actions

So you're advocating no more post related to off-season acquisitions on this site?

by djk royal on Jan 15, 2009 2:44 PM EST up reply actions

No, of course not

I’m suggesting no more “Moore spent $X million on these players. Wow, what a stupid way to spend money” threads. I mean, there have been at least a half dozen of them in the past couple of weeks.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 15, 2009 2:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

But honestly NYRoyal

That $26 million could have went to signing Manny Ramirez

by Royal from Queens on Jan 15, 2009 8:45 PM EST up reply actions

It could have gone lots of places

And we know where it went. Actually, the real problem isn’t the above $26M. Whining about Buck and Teahen at $3M each and German at $1.2M is pretty silly. The problems are Farnsworth, HoRam, Jacobs, Bloomquist and Olivo, which add up to about $13M.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 15, 2009 8:48 PM EST up reply actions

Or

One year of Andruw Jones

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by RoyalsRetro on Jan 15, 2009 2:58 PM EST reply actions

Definitely dodge a bullet there.

If only the Dodgers would have wanted a certain “power hitting right hander” named Jose Guillen as well.

by djk royal on Jan 15, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions

You never know

they did pick up Angel Berroa. Of course, the Royals were paying him, but they still bothered to have him on the roster.

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by cmkeller on Jan 15, 2009 6:14 PM EST up reply actions

at least andruw jones wouldnt be taking ABs away from guys who might be around when we contend

TPJ...you're dead to me

by billybeingbilly on Jan 15, 2009 4:08 PM EST up reply actions

i'm positive that I haven't seen this at all in the past few weeks

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by doublestix on Jan 15, 2009 6:46 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

andruw jones is going to be released...and supposedly going to give up huge money to get out of there...

maybe he’s motivated again

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by billybeingbilly on Jan 15, 2009 6:54 PM EST reply actions

Meh, $1m gets you Eckstein

for 1 year. Sigh.

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by kcbottom9th on Jan 15, 2009 7:14 PM EST reply actions

1/1 for Eckstein and 2/3 for Bloomquist. Wow.

Wow. The sad thing is that I’m fairly certain that Moore doesn’t look at the Eckstein signing and say, “Boy, it looks like I really screwed up.” He looks at it and thinks, “I got the man I wanted. I don’t care how much Eckstein signed for.”

Sigh indeed.

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by Scott McKinney on Jan 15, 2009 7:23 PM EST up reply actions

remember when we were worried about getting Eckstein?

I think we all need to worry about more positive stuff, since this offseason, many of our “well, at least x won’t happen” has turned out worse than we imagined

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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 15, 2009 7:31 PM EST up reply actions