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A 3 run home run? I'm not impressed, he's still soft.
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Aviles now batting .409 with us. God he sucks!
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Lowrie's now hitting .203 against righties.
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Jed Lowrie with a patented Kevin Millar home run. He sucks against righties.
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Horseshit. That was in the other batter's box. It's been an uphill battle lately.
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4 hard hit outs to start the game...
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What a surprise, the umps blew another big call against us. Hopefully this one doesn't lead to runs.
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Both the Pirates and Nationals spent over $17 million on the draft this year. I don't think small market teams can complain about being outspent in the draft anymore.
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Not a terrible first inning. All three of the outs we made were within a few feet of the warning track.
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Becuase they don't count towards the outcome of the game? Oh wait...
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Tim Wakefield's ERA is deceiving. He's given up more unearned runs than Beckett, Lester, Lackey and Buchholz combined.
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We're talking about a 1st year arbitration eligible player, not a free agent.
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Most excited about Swihart, Bradley and Kukuk. Bradley could eventually become Ellsbury's replacement in center, he was fun to watch in the CWS.
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The entire point of this thread was to determine how much space we had to work with in regards to the luxury tax threshold.
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I did a little more research and here are some more realistic arbitration figures. Saltalamacchia will likely make $3 million at most. The record for the highest amount a catcher has recieved in their first year of arbitration is $3.9 million by Russell Martin in 2009. That's a $2.6 million difference. I could not find a comparisson for Matt Albers but based on his poor career numbers an previous compensation, which are both considered in arbitration, I'd be surprised if he made more than $2 million. That's a $2.28 million difference. For Daniel Bard, I used Mike Adams as a comparrison. In his first year of arbitration eligibility, he asked for $1.2 million and settled on $1 million. I'll go with the higher figure and estimate that Bard makes $1.2 million. That'sa difference of $1.77 million. The other figures are probably pretty accurate. But the above adjustments would leave us with approximately $28 million in luxury tax space to work with. Any ideas on how we could spend that money?
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When you calculate our team salary the correct way, we will have $21+ million of luxury tax threshold space cleared up after this season and an additional $28+ million cleared up the year after.
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Most of those increases have no affect on the amount of room we have under the luxury tax threshold. MLB calculates team salaries according to the average annual value of the contract, and that's how I calculated them in this thread as well. Lester's deal is $30 million over 5 years so every year over the entirety of that contract he will cost us $5 million towards the luxury tax threshold.
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If Reddick or Kalish take over for the $14 million a year Drew and Iglesias takes over for the $5.5 million a year Scutaro over the next two years, that alone would allow us to pay Lester and Pedroia $23 million a year each and our overall salary would be less. We'll be just fine.
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What makes Ellsbury so expendable?