Year End Chatter Part One (2035 #26)

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Year End Chatter Part One (2035 #26)

Post by scottsdale_joe » Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:49 am

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Next Year Chatter Number One - Finances
Looking into the Financial Future
by Caitlen Sullivan
Vancouver Sun Sports Reporter
September 27, 2035


With the season essentially over for the Mounties, the Sun will begin looking at what might be in store for 2036.
  • The Mounties will definitely not have Valentín Colón on the roster next year. If he doesn’t exercise his right to opt out of his contract, then the Mounties will decline their team option at $0 buyout. That takes $14.26 million off the payroll for next year.
  • The Mounties will definitely refuse arbitration on relief pitcher Ray Perkins. That will save approximately $10.8 million, his estimated arbitration value. “He’s a solid reliever, but solid relievers aren’t worth $10 million,” said a Mountie official.
  • The team will save the $5.0 million on the contract of Juan Rodríguez who was acquired in the Rick Ward trade. He will come nowhere close to meeting the vesting requirement for keeping his contract through 2036.
  • Vancouver will surely not offer arbitration to infielder Mike Román, thus saving the $950 thousand of his estimated arbitration value.
  • The Mounties will probably release rule five draftee Vernier Piel. He would earn a minimum salary next year. Since he would most likely place at AAA, the savings will be just 16.5% of his minimum salary.
If nothing else happens, then the Mounties would be looking at a payroll of approximately $75 million in 2036 (including the $10 million due on Bertram Hahn’s retention. That is well over $20 million less than the team paid out in 2035 . That $75 million is approximate since several player, most notably Ki-seop Park, Rodrigo Lugo, and Gebre-Egziabher Mwaka are up for arbitration. The estimated arbitration value for each is included in the $75 million figure, but, of course, arbitration can be a crap shoot

There is one other potential factor to consider. Should Pablo Soto opt out of his contract, an extremely unlikely occurrence, then another $10.1 million would be cut off the 2036 team salary obligations.

Given unsubstantiated rumors and inklings from unnamed confidential sources, the Mounties will most likely look to use free agency to bring the salary commitment up to about $88 million. Given the most likely set of circumstances, that would make approximately $13 million for free agents. Our sources say that the Mounties have no interest in spending a lot of money on a single guy. Rather they would look to acquire several backup players at the positions they feel the team could most use some help.

“If we have to spend big money to get overpaid players at any level, then we’ll just stand pat. It’s not like we’re going to contend next year no matter what we do,” stated a subdued club official. “The market doesn’t look very good and there will be limited opportunities for successful signings,” he continued.

Aside from those plans, the team does have some other off-season activities on the consideration list:
  • Wannabe starter Troy Downey will likely undergo off-season hypnosis therapy to convince him that he should want to be a reliever. “If the team can convince him to concentrate on his fastball and curveball and forget about the circle change and knuckle curve, I think his two best pitches will become elite and his strikeout ratio might increase. That won’t help with his movement issues, but movement will be a slightly lesser problem when he has to go one or two innings instead of trying to go six or seven,” we were told by a noted pitching guru that we know.
  • While management generally likes the “pitcher’s park” designation of Northwoods Outpost, there is reportedly some interest in spending capital funds in making the park slightly less foreboding to left handed hitters. For a reasonable sum the team could transform the park to be equal for both right and left handed batters while still maintaining the reputation of being a pitcher’s park.
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Re: Year End Chatter Part One (2035 #26)

Post by RonCo » Tue Aug 21, 2018 1:17 pm

Big movement in the mountie organization.
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