I don’t think the Dodgers have any plans of locking up CK while he’s making 400K a year.

in locking up Kershaw right now unless he signed a Longoria type deal.

Kershaw is making the minimum and Ethier is not.

The Dodgers can’t afford to bump his salary to like 3 million, as I technically went 1-2 million overbudget as it was. Otherwise, yes, I completely agree that Kershaw to a 6 or 7 year deal would be priority.

If the Dodgers had money, I would gamble on Billingsley as well.

Uggla will make far more than $5.35m in 2010. That’s what he made in his first year of arb (2009). I would guess that we will make something like $19m over the next two years (both arbitration eligible)

I think his defense is actually sub-par, but not awful. There’s a big difference. But that may not be accurate, there are no perfect defense metrics.

I think the deal with Uggla is that 2B is the only position the Dodgers really have a chance to get more power out of, and he’s the only available 2B with that kind of pop.

30 HR every year in Florida, which is not a hitter’s park btw.

lol, I didn’t necessarily want to see that but it was worth the click,

though we’d probably agree more then disagree.

I think even if we don’t have Uggla, we have about 11 million to get a 2B and a pitcher.

The Dodgers should be accounting the profits for 2008 and 2009 to pay for the players with deferred compensation (Manny, AJ, Nomar, etc.). The money should be expensed already, so you shouldn’t really be counting on future profits to pay for past compensation (i.e. you should put the future salaries in the bank from the profits and accumulate interest until they are paid). If you don’t, it is just a shell game that you are eventually going to loose. But given current ownership, mortgaging the future for the past is probably a done deal and exactly why I want those guys out.