I feel like I have been saying this a lot lately – my blog is dumb but my dumb ideas seem less stupid when others write them. As I have been saying all summer….
The debate on Reyes is simply a product of the amount of money the team will allocate to the 2012 season. They already have contracts for nine players, totaling $76.63 million. Sandy Alderson says the team will operate “around $100mil”. That leaves $23.37 mil for the rest of the 40-man squad. That’s around $750K per player.
Now, let’s say they pay Jose… oh, $18mil/yr.
You now have 10 players being paid $94.63mil.
This leaves you $5.27mil to be split up between 30 players, far below the minimal salary in the league.
Go ahead. Go back, read it again, and do the math. I’ll wait.
and again, the Math + Alderson’s statements pretty much support the idea of Reyes fitting the budget.