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    Attack the posts, not the posters. Peace please.
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    Drew was a good player, and suffers from what i call "The Theo effect". No need to bash him, no need to defend him. He wasn't as good as the stats show because of a lack of playing time, but not as bad as fans' rhetoric may indicate because when healthy, he was a force for most of his contract.
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    After reading through the CBA, the following figures need to be adjusted: Any and all players who got a signing bonus need to apply that bonus pro-rated throughout the life of the contract, (yearly value). That means that several of the player's AAV's are off, if by a small amount. Also have to factor in performance bonuses and player benefits, which are supposed around 9 million for the Sox.
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    THANK YOU! Can you provide a link so i can analyze it and see why i was wrong?
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    Added Dice-K, Tazawa i factored in in the 24 mill for the arb group. I'm assuming Lackey's option will be picked up.
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    Rationalization: Breakfast of champions. (@ the Jacksonianmarch guy)
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    That sucks.
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    Lackey: 13.83 Gonzales:21.14 Crawford: 19.42 Beckett: 17 Jenks: 6 Bucholz: 7.48 Youk: 12.25 Iglesias: 2.060 Scutaro: 5.5 Pedroia: 8.1 Lester: 5 117.78 That's the figure i came up with, taking out signing bonuses (which don't count towards AAV, i believe) from contracts and calculating my own AAV's. Add 24 million from arb and you have 131.78. Add around 4.4 million for the rest of the 40-man roster. I think 136 million is closer to what the current money tied up actually is. Correct me on everything i may be wrong, because i think that both the other guy's numbers and mine are inaccurate. +8.6 for Dice-K: 144.6
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    No choke will equal the 3-0 ALCS lead, but nice try.
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    The option has already been exercised.
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    Just edited.
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    Buch is arb-elegible, but you're right on A-Gon. Disregard that, forgot about the extension.
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    Then there has to be a mistake, because by actual salaries (Cot's), the total should be higher than AAV (Poster). I'll get back to you on this one.
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    Cot's lists the non-arb obligations at 101,324,000. Where's the difference? Maybe Cot's uses AAV to calculate salary and that poster didn't, or the other way around? AAV is what counts for luxury tax purposes.
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    The Sox currently have 101,000,000 dollars tied up to the roster, not considering Arb players and re-signing Papelbon. Add 13 million for Paps, and it increases to 114,000,000. They should also have around $25 millions tied up in arbitration-elegible players (i'm overstating, just in case), which adds up to 139,000,000. With a luxury tax treshold that should be right around 183 million dollars, that gives the Sox around 35 million to play with while staying comfortably under the luxury tax. $15 mill for Beltran, $10 mill for Jackson, and you have around $14 mill to play around with for the bullpen, a bench player, and a couple insurance arms. Sounds pretty good to me.
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    Not as bad as Beltran, and his issues aren't chronic, like Beltran's knees. I'll come up with an estimate of how much money the Sox have to play with (assuming they stay just under the salary cap) a bit later.
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    Boras can only do so much. Beltran's health issues and diminishing range are problems he can't deny, and most big-market teams have the two positions he's most attractive for (RF/DH) occupied, with the exception of Philly, but they're the frontrunners for Cuddyer, due to his RH bat and positional flexibility. I'd rather pay Beltran a bit more (2/30) in order to sign him for less time.
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    The market for Beltran should be much weaker than Cuddyer's because he's older, fragile, and can only play the corners right now. He may command a bit higher AAV, but the way i see it, he only gets a third year on an option.
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    I think a lot of people are understating how much money the FO is going to be willing to spend after last year's debacle. I'm operating under the assumption that they'll operate just under the luxury tax next year. That should give the Sox some decent breathing room.
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    I don't think you will. Cuddyer is looking for 4/50, and he's probably going to get it. Also, Vasquez would get murdered at Fenway.
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    It's meant to be realistic. The bolded areas are far from realistic.
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