Email a copy of 'Owner Ken Kendrick On The Diamondbacks' to a friend
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Email a copy of 'Owner Ken Kendrick On The Diamondbacks' to a friend
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aap212
I’d still rather be paying Bernard Gilkey in 2010 than Gary Matthews Jr.
rotorueter
I think it’s pretty scary for those of us who follow non-Dbacks NL West teams. If the Dbacks are putting a halfway decent product on the field while still paying huge deferred salaries, imagine how much more salary leeway they’ll have after 2012.
satchelprice
To be fair, the Dodgers and Rockies already have awesome cores in place, and the Padres are building one of the better farm systems in the game. That division is going to be really fun to watch the next few years.
vtadave
True true, and the Dodgers are also on the hook for quite a bit of deferred money over the next several years, mainly to Manny and Andruw Jones. Also paying Juan Pierre through 2011. Thing with the Dodgers of course is the rapidly escalating cost of that “awesome core” and the inability of the current owner to spend like a true large-market club.
If the Padres can net a Teixeira or Bedard-like return for Adrian Gonzalez and a solid prospect or two for Heath Bell, that’s a team that is going to be quite interesting come 2012.
humbb
“But those of us who have been putting money in will not have the obligation to do that in the same way that we do now,” said Kendrick. “So there would be some more freedom if we are prepared to go further into our pocket books.”
I’ve read this about 5 times, and still have no idea what he’s saying. Kinda like “if we had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some ham”.
Mike Axisa 2
Hah, same here. I couldn’t figure out a way to shorten it up and summarize, so I said forget and threw the whole quote in.
jdub220
I think he’s saying that once they no longer have the obligation to pay the deferred salaries, they’re willing to go deeper in their pocket books because Gilkey, RJ, Schilling, Williams, Gonzo, and Alomar aren’t digging into them. So they could use some of that 13.3MM/year (40MM for three years) towards the team.
That’s how I read it. I could be wrong though. Sometimes Kendrick just doesn’t make sense.
EDIT: Whoops, I guess I skipped over the “…the money tied up in deferred payments will not necessarily be available to the club once those payoffs has been made,” part. I guess he isn’t making sense.
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Yeah I agree… paying Bernard Gilkey is more worth it.