: In concept, you may get via a season with a payroll of, say, $30-$40M in the event you had been that dedicated to cheapness, although after all they’re not going to really go that low. Proper now I’ve obtained them at $95M, already considerably decrease than $136M for this yr. That’s earlier than selecting up Topa’s choice (or simply going to arb with him) and non-tendering possible candidates like Tonkin, Cabrera, and Misiewicz. They very effectively may get beneath $110M even when Buxton insists on staying by shifting López, Jeffers, and Ryan. However I’m undecided I anticipate that a lot of a blow-up since they obtained numerous MLB-ready guys within the trades.
