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mitch l.
I could be wrong on how this adds up, but since Colby Rasmus made the St. Louis opening day roster last season wouldn’t that make him a Super Two? Assuming of course he stays on the roster all of this season.
martinfv2
To be a Super Two you will always need two years plus more than 130 days of service time…Rasmus will just be an even two years after the season.
mitch l.
Thank you, I was just curious since Rsamus’s contract will probably end up being one of the 10,000 things that ends up being affected directly or indirectly by Pujols’s extension.
bbxxj
Some people wondered (or whined about) why the Braves didn’t hand over a huge long term contract to that mythical ‘big bat’ this winter. Jurrjens, Escobar, Prado and to a lesser extent O’Flaherty will all of a sudden go from playing for thousands to playing for millions. Kawakami and Lowe will come off the books in ’11 and ’12 respectively so that will help as their arb awards and free agent years aproach, but a big (say a Bay or Holliday) contract would really complicate things, expecially when we start paying Heyward in three years.
mitch l.
I have a hard time believing that any of the 4 players that you mentioned are going to make enough money to stop the Braves from having potentially siging a big bat. I think that not being able to unload Lowe and his 3 years and having instead unloaded Vazquez and his 1 year was probably the biggest issue. Heyward probably won’t start to make big time money for 4 or 5 years, had they say signed Bay to a deal similar to the one he got from the Mets that deal would’ve either been off or almost off the books by that time, they could potentially sign him to favorable contract and addressed that issue before it actaully became an issue.
Ethanator99
Joey Votto, Edinson Volquez, and Johnny Cueto.
The Reds going to be spending some money this winter.
satchelprice
Well, they have Harang ($14M) and Arroyo ($13M) coming off the books, as well as Hernandez, Cabrera, Rhodes and Lincoln, too. Not to mention that Rolen takes a $4.5M payc ut next year.
That’s over $40M coming off the books, which should help to pay for the raises to the first-year arb guys, as well as the raise already in place for Phillips. I still can’t believe that the Reds have been spending so much money over the past couple years on Harang, Arroyo and Cordero.