Pujols, age 36: 25m
Wilson, age 35: 20m
Weaver, age 33.5: 20m
65 million$$ for 3 players. Wow.
Vernon Wells is making 24m from 2012-2014; Santana and Haren make 11m and 13m respectively (both with a club option for 2013); and Tori Hunter is bringing down 18.5m. What a payroll clusterfuck!
So for these 7 players, they are on the hook for 92min 2012! Throw in Bobby Abreu and there you have it, an 8-man roster with a 101 million dollar payroll. Just wow!
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But their new tv contract reportedly pays them $150M a year. They're not even blinking at those payroll numbers. They can get up just shy of the luxury tax and not sweat with that new tv deal.
ReplyDeleteGood point. I hadn't seen any specific #s on their deal. Have you heard what the general # will be for the TX TV deal (a/o 2014 right?)?
ReplyDeleteSo do you think the LAA's owner is committed to a 150-200m payroll for the next 5 years? And, due to the TV deal, you don't think they'll be hamstrung by that outlay in an of itself, right? I guess the biggest risk with these kinds of contracts is the injury component, and for 30yo+ guys that possibility looms larger every year of a long-term deal. In that respect, I prefer Texas' current skittishness to over long-term deals to older guys.
I'm assuming they got a little signing bonus now that allows them to carry a high payroll with some backloaded contracts until the annual kicks in. And with the money coming off the books next year (possibly as much as $50M if they let all their free agents go) they are in pretty good shape.
ReplyDeleteI agree about long term deals to older guys. My fear is that TX will instead spend big money on extensions for Hamilton et al.