Mo' Money
Just updating the payroll numbers from this post with the recent changes. Just the changes...
Starting 9:
Pena, $2 million
Lo Duca, $5 million
Total: $27.1 million
Bench:
Langerhans, $500K
Boone, $1 million
Total: $9.4 million
Starting Pitching:
Patterson: $850K
Total: $3.45 million
Bullpen:
Ayala: $1.7 million
Wagner: $450K
Colome: $1.25 million
Total: $12.25 million
Grand total: ~$52.2 million.
Seems like there's enough room for a pitcher (Colon, Lieber, Jennings) and a glove-first shortstop (John McDonald, Adam Everett, etc). Get those two, and there's enough upside that if all cylinders are banging to be next year's surprise team.
(The delusions of winter are wonderful!)
UPDATE: Nats re-sign Jesus Colome for $1.25 million.
Starting 9:
Pena, $2 million
Lo Duca, $5 million
Total: $27.1 million
Bench:
Langerhans, $500K
Boone, $1 million
Total: $9.4 million
Starting Pitching:
Patterson: $850K
Total: $3.45 million
Bullpen:
Ayala: $1.7 million
Wagner: $450K
Colome: $1.25 million
Total: $12.25 million
Grand total: ~$52.2 million.
Seems like there's enough room for a pitcher (Colon, Lieber, Jennings) and a glove-first shortstop (John McDonald, Adam Everett, etc). Get those two, and there's enough upside that if all cylinders are banging to be next year's surprise team.
(The delusions of winter are wonderful!)
UPDATE: Nats re-sign Jesus Colome for $1.25 million.
posted by Chris Needham at
10:33 AM
12 Comments:
It will not be a surprise to bowden or bos. We have Lo Duca. Proven winner. I almost don't want to win alot more games next year, because we will hear so much about Lo Duca's leadership. I guess I can live with that, though.
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Ironic Goat, at 12/13/2007 10:51 AM
I wouldn't be surprised to see Willie Harris signed to a deal and given a shot over Langerhans and GGuzman as the bench lefty outfielder. And no im not just saying that because its Ladson's latest rumor, it just seems like a Bowden move to stock more outfielders.
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Anonymous, at 12/13/2007 11:23 AM
Chris,
Whatever delusions we may have, they at least are infinitely more grounded in reality than the delusions most people have about the Redskins in the offseason.
Also, we could be the surprise team for two interesting reasons. First, we've got 18 games against the Mets and Lo Duca and Milledge will probably be motivated as hell for those games considering how they were lead out of town. Now, I'm not suggesting we'll win the season series, but they should be seriously interesting games and any extra games we pick up due to that motivation will be gold.
Second, and perhaps more importantly, our divisions rivals haven't exactly beefed up during the offseason. If anything their rosters will remain stagnant and older (and not older in the good way like ours), especially the Mets, who probably will need some duct tape to hold them together. The Marlins meanwhile, should be even deeper in the crapper than last season, while the Braves will probably break even with what they did last year. The Phillies might improve as Howard, Rollins and Utley hit their primes, but they haven't beefed up their pitching any.
If anything, we should be far more competitive than last year, although I think we should take a chance on Prior--standard Bowden-esque risk-reward stuff, because the chance of getting a bona fide ace at his age is too great to pass up. Plus, we've got the 'pen to keep his pitch counts low. He needs some redemption anyway after what Baker did to him with those awful pitch counts. Add in Silva and you might really have something decent.
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Michael Taylor, at 12/13/2007 11:30 AM
You had me 'til Silva!
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Chris Needham, at 12/13/2007 11:32 AM
I would say Livan, but his age concerns me, plus the dropping innings count--they would be fine if he were an ace, but for his level of performance, to lose the innings-eating aspect would mean a total waste of money.
Also, definitely add Everett--that's a no-brainer.
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Michael Taylor, at 12/13/2007 11:39 AM
What could we trade for Toronto's former starting shortstop? What sort of package would be reasonable?
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Ironic Goat, at 12/13/2007 11:59 AM
Wow- We already lost out on Adam Everett. He signed with the Twins. Snooze you lose, I guess.
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Positively Half St., at 12/13/2007 12:13 PM
We should be thinking younger. Why give stuff up for a plug. We need to be speculating on youth. Everett would have been useful, but if you give stuff up we need to sign prospects. I'm absolutely with Uncle Jimbo The Unstable on that front.
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Unknown, at 12/13/2007 12:21 PM
Adam Everett didn't waste any time. Mitchell Report in less than 45 minutes. I'm looking your way Peter Bergeron!!
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Anonymous, at 12/13/2007 1:18 PM
whew re colome! i still think there is something special about having the only all-savior battery in baseball! especially when they play on sundays.
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DCPowerGator, at 12/13/2007 1:20 PM
I just heard that Lo Duca was named in the Mitchell Report for HGH use. Couldn't we have waited a few days for these results before we offered the 5 mil?
Now we have another public relations headache on our hands.
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Anonymous, at 12/13/2007 2:28 PM
Jesus Colome stats for Sundays in 2007: 11IP, 11Ks, 1BB, 2ER, 5H. And on Sundays when he pitched the team was 4-4.
And of course his performance every other day of the week was pretty good too. They were smart to re-sign him.
By
Phil Bechtel, at 12/13/2007 2:43 PM
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