Basically we're at $244M this year.
Big ticket items coming off would be Buehler ($21M), Giolito ($19), Chapman ($10.75M) and Hendricks ($5M) for total of $56M.
That needs to be reduced by Crochet ($24M) and Anthony (16M).
So the net savings would be $16M.
I see no way we'll have the 'same' team with $16M budget. We need to replace Giolito and Chapman. That alone would get us $20M over the $244M luxury tax limit.
And let's not forget what additional money it would take to redo Bregman's contract.
Obviously we have no idea what Sandoval can do. Can he be equal to Giolito?
I would suggest to Bres to make the Joe Ryan deal work out and shed some salary. He'll be in his first year of arbitration.
I'd like for our starting rotation to look, Crochet, Bello, Giolito, Sandoval, Ryan, Tolle, Crawford, Houck.