You're estimate for Shouse is probably a little high and my guess is that Helling is gone at the end of the season replaced by Villeneuava. RLUZ, you think the only roster change is going to be letting gonzalez walk and bringing up eveland? I was trying to be very conservative and bloat the team salary whenever possible. You know, as oppossed to assuming the Brewers could trade away dead weight and sign/trade for every player they want http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif . It was more of an exercise of "worst case scenario" than me making a guess at what I think will actually happen. I was pleasently suprised to see that even in that scanario, there's money left over. I'd be tempted to upgrade the bullpen, personally. So don't try to project Fielder at say $340,000. He's much more likely to be in the $500,000 range. That's not going to have a very large effect on the overall budget. Maybe a million total?