The $129,592,432 Team
Here is my crack at it. Yeah, I didn't make the $120M limit, including deferred money, but it was a lot harder than I thought it would be when I started. I think some have commented on other attempts that trades should maybe not be contemplated as part of this exercise, but I went ahead and dealt Ethier, both to save a little money and because I think the team could do just as well without him and he will likely walk as a FA after 2012 anyway. Loney is gone as a non-tender. Kuo would be non-tendered and offerred an NRI due to his elbow injury.
It's late and I'm a little tired, so I hope my math is right. Here is this arm chair GM's team:
Starters:
C Ellis $435,000
1B Fielder $22,000,000 (6/154m with a 7th year option and $4m buyout)
2B Prado $4,500,000
SS Gordon $420,000
3B Uribe $8,000,000
LF Willingham $7,000,000 (3/26m with 4th year option and $2m buyout
CF Kemp $12,000,000 (8/170m extension)
RF Sands $420,000
Bench:
OF Gwynn $1,000,000
OF/1B Rivera $4,000,000
IF Sellers $420,000
IF Betemit $1,500,000 (2/5m)
C Castro $1,400,000
SP:
Kershaw $8,000,000
Bills $9,000,000
Kuroda $8,000,000 (+$2m deferred to 2013)
Lilly $12,000,000
Beachy $435,000
RP:
Jansen $435,000
Guerra $420,000
Elbert $420,000
Lindblom $420,000
Ames $420,000
Hawksworth $435,000
T. Miller $1,250,000
Total: $107,330 (not counting deferred)
I traded Ethier to the White Sox in a 3 team deal:
Dodgers get: Martin Prado, Brandon Beachy
White Sox get: Ethier, James Baldwin
Braves get: Carlos Quentin, Matt Guerrier (+ $2m)
I struggled with whether Ethier alone was enough return for the White Sox to make the deal, so I added Baldwin. The Braves need a RH OF and a vet reliever to take up some of the enormous amount of innings their young relievers threw. Linebrink is a FA, and Guerrier basically replaces him. They have that great group of young starters coming up so they can afford to part with Beachy.
I realize two $100m contracts is daunting, but the Dodgers have a bunch of money coming off in the next two years, including Kuroda, Lilly, and Uribe, plus a cost controlled bullpen and cost control in Gordon and Sands, not to mention a bunch of deferred money expiring soon. Even with big contracts to Kemp and Fielder, there still should be money to extend Kershaw next off-season. The rest of the rotation after Kershaw and Bills will be young and cost controlled after 2013, including Beachy, Eovaldi, Webster, Lee, Withrow, and Gould as possibilities.
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I really really really like this team. Finally, an Ethier trade that isn’t stupid. If the dodgers could do that I would say pull the trigger. But why ames AND trever miller with no tolleson? Surely if Anes is ready Tolleson is.
by lnickerson88 on Nov 13, 2011 1:44 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Also, I like Willingham a lot, but to keep the payroll down to be fair to the rest you could’ve left off Willingham and replaced him with Gwyvera
by lnickerson88 on Nov 13, 2011 1:46 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
There is no way those teams do that trade.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Nov 13, 2011 7:28 AM PST reply actions
Yeah, it seemed a bit one sided to me, too. A team moving a good cost controlled starter? But, hey, if it can be done..
by lnickerson88 on Nov 13, 2011 8:44 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
I was trying to take care of 2nd base and 5th starter in one deal, and I needed to match up with the Braves to get Prado. Beachy is young and cost controlled, but it isn’t like I got Teharan or Delgado, etc. Initially, I had an idea to just send Ethier to the White Sox for Gavin Floyd and a prospect, but I just didnt like any of the FA second baseman enough to go that route.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened
Oh I like it,
just no way they do it.
by Rihanna's Ex-Boyfriend on Nov 13, 2011 4:14 PM PST up reply actions
On the trade
I don’t think the Braves would give up Beachy, plus with De Rosa and Eovaldi already knocking on the door for a starter spot for 2012 or more likely 2013, adding him on the trade doesn’t make sense. Dodgers are better off just making a one year deal with a veteran. Also according to rumors I don’t think the Braves care if the outfield bat they get is a left or right as it seems like they were asking the Rockies for Seth Smith (a left hander) and a center field prospect for Prado. I say you trade Either and Silvero, directly to the Braves for Prado and Brandon Druy (a third baseman prospect) and steal the trade from the Rockies. Other then that nice job on the roster

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