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So how much money is actually coming off the books at the end of this season?


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Only enough so that really hard choices will need to be made.

-Sign RIglesias, QO him, or, go to closer by committee until their closer emerges.  The first two options pretty much preclude spending significant money at the SS position.

-Overpay for older, questionable (but with pedigree) front-line starter(s) on short term contracts or overpay for younger front-line starters more plausible to be/stay healthy, but on a long term contract that will have implications on future payrolls.  All this is predicated on whether there are front-line starters even desiring to sign here, which begs the question of how much overpay does there need to be to acquire one.

-Acquire one of the many top level SS FA's, thus limiting what can be spent on their more pressing needs (rotation, BP), or, go with a low cost FA or internal option and potentially maintain a defensive deficiency at that position, as well as below average offense.  The second option will subtract from improvements made to the pitching staff.

-Any one of these options that increase payroll will affect their ability to sign depth pieces, like a Cobb or quality backup catcher. In other words, the big decisions cascade into smaller hard choices.

Minasian certainly has his job cut out for him.  The positive is that he does have some quality young players to plug in, or trade, in order to fill in the holes created by the consequences of some of these decisions.

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9 minutes ago, Junkballer said:

Only enough so that really hard choices will need to be made.

-Sign RIglesias, QO him, or, go to closer by committee until their closer emerges.  The first two options pretty much preclude spending significant money at the SS position.

-Overpay for older, questionable (but with pedigree) front-line starter(s) on short term contracts or overpay for younger front-line starters more plausible to be/stay healthy, but on a long term contract that will have implications on future payrolls.  All this is predicated on whether there are front-line starters even desiring to sign here, which begs the question of how much overpay does there need to be to acquire one.

-Acquire one of the many top level SS FA's, thus limiting what can be spent on their more pressing needs (rotation, BP), or, go with a low cost FA or internal option and potentially maintain a defensive deficiency at that position, as well as below average offense.  The second option will subtract from improvements made to the pitching staff.

-Any one of these options that increase payroll will affect their ability to sign depth pieces, like a Cobb or quality backup catcher. In other words, the big decisions cascade into smaller hard choices.

Minasian certainly has his job cut out for him.  The positive is that he does have some quality young players to plug in, or trade, in order to fill in the holes created by the consequences of some of these decisions.

Good summary.  One additional point regarding the SS FA option: if they do sign someone like a Baez or Seager, then there's no realistic way to also extend Ohtani, unless Arte is willing to completely blow past anything resembling his budget over the last few years. 

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