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Phillies Payroll
March 9th, 2010 | 
Author: Google is pretty awesome isn’t it? Attached is a spreadsheet of the Phillies payroll commitments as noted by Jeff Euston at Cots Contracts. I will be updating the data as the season goes along, the spreadsheet is intended to provide everyone a quick snap shot of the Phillies commitment to the 25 man roster. Keep in mind there are plenty of minor leaguers also making serious coin and some of the players have performance incentives that may scale up the value of their contracts by the end of the season. Option buyouts are not indicated in the spreadsheet. Most options have buyouts, you can look those up at Cots.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArCib-AD2n2VdHRfdDBrMGdrdVdIRkRhTEVUN2dIOWc&hl=en
A number of simple observations should jump out. First, the Phillies are heavily committed to 2011. Only 4 players are set to come off the books in Moyer (8m), Werth (7m), Durbin (2.15m), and Dobbs (1.35m). Pay raises are set to eliminate those savings. An additional 4.95 mil could come off the books if options to J.C. Romero (4.5m/.25m buyout) and Juan Castro (.75m/.05m buyout) are declined. With only about 2-7 million to spend on four to six roster spots, 2011 looks like it will be a very boring offseason to be a Phillies fan. Hopefully the club will make it a shorter and sweeter offseason with a Championship. Looking ahead, you’ll probably notice that things open up a bit in 2012. This will be looked at more in depth tomorrow.
For those of you hoping to retain Jayson Werth, the 2011 payroll certainly bodes ill. This is especially concerning since Ruben and Montgomery have publicly hinted at a firm payroll ceiling around 140 mil for opening day rosters. Creative options to retaining Werth will be explored in a few days.
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Naturally, most of our creativity is going to be limited to finding suitors for Howard/Victorino.
I was hoping we’d try to trade Ibanez. Then I remembered we gave him a goddamned no-trade clause. I think I blocked that out of my memory initially.
I’ll get to that Liney…be patient. That’s post #4 (titled something like Mock GM: How to Re-Sign Jayson Werth)
Ruckus, just another reason to think our little Rube learned a little too much from Mr. Wade. Only the best players in the game should get any kind of no-trade protection. Still look around at the market for similar players. We might be able to offload about 5 mil of his contract for next to nothing in return…at that point I’d rather just keep him.
A Team is a god damn blogging machine. Can someone on the Phils do something stupid already so I can post?
Forgot I still have an obligation to call people douche bags.
I have them stored up remember? I’m quickly working through my back log though. I have ideas but I haven’t made them into posts yet.
Hey, I have just as many posts as A Team does, and my Amaro posts are so in-depth, they should count double.
Speaking of which, Part III should be up this afternoon, kids.
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I was just talking to my friends about this very idea. You must be psychic or something!