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Revenue-Neutral

It has come to this. According to sources the Dodgers cannot add any more payroll.

Bill Shaikin of the LA Times report seems to validate what Peter Gammons said over the weekend. This is Shaikin's quote:

Colletti said he could have added to the Dodgers' payroll if necessary to complete the deal. However, a source familiar with negotiations said the Indians were told that the Dodgers needed any trade to be "revenue-neutral" -- in other words, McCourt would not increase the payroll.

This is what Peter Gammons had to say:

The reason the Indians were able to get Carlos Santana, a very high-level prospect, in the Casey Blake deal is that the Indians took on all of Blake's remaining $2 million salary. Several general managers around baseball wonder whether L.A. doesn't have cash flow problems.

Revenue - Neutral trades.
Yea baby, a whole new world has opened up where we can deal our youth for someone else's overpaid veteran and get the team to eat the contract by throwing in our extra's kids.
Santana - 2 Million
Lambo - 4.5 Million
McDonald - 2.75 Million
DeWitt - 3.8 Million
LaRoche - 7.5 Million
Hu - 2 Million
DeJesus - 3.75 Million
Kershaw - priceless

Next up will be companion trades where we will attach above prospects to Juan Pierre, Jason Schmidt, and A Jones to remove them from payroll so that Ned can  be free of the encumbrances of his previous free agent signing and the youth he would rather be playing elsewhere.

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Ugh

Coletti is gonna run this team into the ground with his stupid love of veterans.

The poster formerly known as Matt.

by bluemax on Jul 29, 2008 12:34 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Well, hopefully this means they won’t trade Kemp for Manny.

by the big grabowski on Jul 29, 2008 5:07 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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2010 Dodger Payroll

Pos No Player 2010 Salary
C 55 Martin $5,050,000
1B 7 Loney $3,100,000
2B 33 DeWitt $410,000*
3B 23 Blake $6,000,000
SS 15 Furcal $8,500,000
LF 99 Manny $7,267,760
CF 27 Kemp $4,000,000
RF 16 Ethier $6,000,000

2B/3B 14
Carroll $1,350,000
2B/3B/1B 3 Belliard $825,000
C 12
Ausmus $850,000
OF 5 Johnson $800,000
SS 60
Hu $405,000*

SP 22 Kershaw $425,000*
SP 58 Billingsley $3,850,000
SP 18 Kuroda $14,100,000
SP 44 Padilla $4,025,000
SP 57 Elbert $405,000*

CL 51 Broxton $4,000,000
LHP 52 Sherrill $4,500,000
LHP 56 Kuo $950,000
RHP 67 Troncoso $425,000*
RHP 54 Belisario $425,000*
RHP 31 McDonald $425,000*
RHP 68 Monasterios $460,000*

Pierre $4,000,000
Andruw $3,600,000
Schmidt $2,000,000
Wolf $2,000,000
Hudson $1,440,000
Nomar $1,250,000
Ohman $200,000
Hoffmann ($50,000)

Others on 40-man roster (total: 40)
LHP 65 Zerpa $60,000*
RHP 64 Guerra  
RHP 37 Haeger  
RHP 74 Jansen  
LHP 59 Leach
RHP 73 Link  
RHP 49 Schlichting  
LHP 50 Stults  
RHP 47 Wade
C 9
Ellis  
C 71 May  
SS 87 DeJesus  
OF 75 Paul
OF 17 Repko $500,000
OF 62 Robinson  

Totals $93,547,760
 
Red = arbitration
Asterisk (*) = estimated
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