bretsky7’s 2023 Payroll Blueprint

[bretsky7]

• C: Victor Caratini ($2.80M)
• 1B: Rowdy Tellez ($5.50M)
• 2B: Brice Turang ($10.00M)
• 3B: Luis Urias ($4.50M)
• SS: Willy Adames ($9.50M)
• LF: Christian Yelich ($26M)
• CF: Garrett Mitchell ($0.70M)
• RF: Hunter Renfroe ($11.00M)
• DH: Keston Hiura ($2.00M)
• Utility: Mike Brosseau ($1.00M)
• SP1: Corbin Burnes ($11.50M)
• SP2: Brandon Woodruff ($11.00M)
• SP3: Freddy Peralta ($3.50M)
• SP4: Eric Lauer ($5.00M)
• RP: Brent Suter ($3.00M)
• RP: Luis Perdomo ($1.00M)
• RP: Matt Bush ($2.00M)
• RP: Adrian Houser ($3.50M)
• RP: Hoby Milner ($1.00M)
• RP: Devin Williams ($4.00M)

Payroll is 8.85% under budget

[monty57]

You have Turang getting $10M. Do you mean Wong? Otherwise, Wong will get a $2M buyout and Turang would be league minimum.

Plus, you have 20 guys and need 26. At league minimum, that's another $4.2M, but I doubt you'll fill all those spots for league minimum, so you'd probably need to figure $10M or so to fill out your bench, bullpen, and 5th starter if you're just putting "generic guy" there.

This kind of shows that if we bring everyone back except Wong, and let our free agents walk to free agency, we're going to be around $120M if we do nothing else. Where the ownership group sets the budget after a down season in ticket sales will determine what Stearns can do from here.

Note: This is a big reason why the team had to trade Hader, and why I think there is a good chance that one of Burnes/Woodruff gets traded this offseason.

[bretsky7]

I changed wong to turang, hit enter and it posted.