Arbitration projections.

[alwz4gbp]

Arbitration projections were just released.  

I think they let Bauers walk, but everyone else seems reasonable.  

Can the Brewers afford Vaughn?  Do they want to afford that?  Maybe offer a two year deal hoping to entice him to come off of that number?

Contreras is really climbing fast as well.  With the impending lockout/strike, do they consider trading him?  Seems far fetched but owners are not going to want to be on the hook for big salaries if they shut it down.  What are your thoughts.

[thebruce44]

I can't believe Vaughn would be that expensive given his overall body of work.

I would think they would keep Bauers based on his second half and relatively low cost.

[liveforoctober]

$10mil total for the numbers that Vaughn and Bauers gave us combined in the 2nd half is well worth it IMO if that is what it comes out to. The $2mil number on Bauers is very tradeable too if other options present themselves before/during ST.

[KCBrewerfan34]

Bauers is a bargain at $2 mill 

[Roderick]

Spotrac has an amount listed for the players under 2026 arby.  So I assume this is their guess at the amount.

Mears 1.5M

Vaughn 7.5M

Bauers 1.75M

Megill 6.5M

Turang 2.7M

Mitchell 2.0M

[mudbutt]

Vaughn is looking like a platoon player on the short side, but a great one, so I would decline him at that cost and try to get him back at a lower price.  I would then decline Bauers and maybe bring him back if you can't find a lefty first baseman that you would prefer to give primary playing time.  Too bad Adams and Wilken are both righties as they will be in AAA and could be mid year callups, although I don't know what their splits look like.  But Fischer will be at AA at least so hopefully one emerges out of the group to be the primary in 2027.