With player movement in full swing, I’ll try to get this updated (it’s always available on the right side-bar) as often as I can.
First, let’s take a look at our payroll situation post-Papelbon.
The players are in order of team control (oh, hey Ryan Howard), and in secondary order by salary amount. And it goes out as far as we have salary obligations.
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Hmm…so we will be paying a 35-year-old Ryan Howard, 36-year-old Cliff Lee and a 34-year-old Jonathan Papelbon $63 million dollars in 2015. I guess we’ll worry about that when we get to it…
If we are able to sustain this level of payroll – I don’t see any reason why our age will be a HUGE problem in the coming years as we should be able to back-fill with free agents. As long as you have a handful of players playing in their first 3 years, you can pretty much create a whole team with that much money.
We probably have about $20 mill more to play with. But it could be more if...
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