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.