2020 salary terms still need to be hammered out. But what about what’s owed to players beyond that point? The near-term economic picture remains questionable at best. That’ll make teams all the more cautious with guaranteed future salaries.
Every organization has some amount of future cash committed to players, all of it done before the coronavirus pandemic swept the globe. There are several different ways to look at salaries; for instance, for purposes of calculating the luxury tax, the average annual value is the touchstone, with up-front bonuses spread over the life of the deal. For this exercise, we’ll focus on actual cash outlays that still have yet to be paid.
We’ll run through every team, with a big assist from the Cot’s Baseball Contracts database. Prior entries can be found here. Next up is the Brewers:
*Includes deferrals in Christian Yelich and Lorenzo Cain contracts
*Includes deferrals and buyout on mutual option in Ryan Braun contract
*Includes buyouts on club options over Freddy Peralta, Avisail Garcia, Justin Smoak, Jedd Gyorko, Brock Holt, Eric Sogard, and David Phelps
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I thought Braun was a free agent after this year
He has a team option that they almost certainly won’t take and it includes a $4M buyout which is what this lists. If they don’t do the buyout he gets $15M.
It says in the post that the buyout and deferrals on Braun are included.
Hopefully the MLB allows PEDs again when they get back to action. Yelich looks a lot like pre-juiced Bonds and Braun would be the perfect mentor on the mechanics of cycling your injections.
Brewers championships, in the five years post COVID, over/under for two? I’m taking the over.
Yelich looks better than Bonds. He don’t need the juice.
you obviously never watched bonds
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Bonds had to cheat in order to hit long balls.
really? he “looks a lot like Bonds?” is that really the criteria we are going by now?
You forgot to include the words “pre-juice”. You misquoted that guy. Send your resume to CNN.
nah, send it to fox news instead, it’s right up their alley.
fox news: we put the gullible in right wing
im paraphrasing. anyone can read the full comment above and regardless my point stands.
Hey guys thanks for forcing your unwanted political views into a baseball chat. Nobody gives a crap what you think about politics here.
DarkSide was simply questioning a stupid comment made above.
yes and every other news organization is just a left wing propaganda machine but damn you fox news
I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or if you think everything that isn’t Fox News is “left wing”.. Read a book, maybe?
You’re point is invalidating by a false quote. Plus calling Yelich pre-juice Bonds isn’t completely off the mark.
Why would you imply that only left wingers would misquote? CNN has been caught misquoting (many times), any ideology can and will misquote someone, you presumed (incorrectly) I watch Fox News, and you automatically assumed only left wingers are factually incorrect. Wow. That’s a bit narrow-minded, no?
Padres will problem win a championship before the brewers do. The brewers have no solid starting pitching with a meh farm.
to be fair, they’ve gone to the playoffs twice now with no rotation and its probably improved.
They’ve also lost two key lineup contributors and while Cain was still productive, he’s 34 and regressed from 2018 to 2019. I’m not saying it’s over, but their window is as open as it’ll be with the current crop of Brewers.
In fact, I’d put the Brewers near the top of the list of teams who a cancelled 2020 season would hurt the most.
Cain will not be any worse than he was last year or he won’t be playing. The Brewers will be just fine for at least a couple more years
Meh farm system?
Try lowest ranked farm system in baseball.
Most sites after this years draft have them bottom 3 farm system but not last anymore. It’s still a bad system that lacks depth I agree. But to say “our window is closing” is laughable. You all saw the only future commitment we have past 2022 is yelich. How can you say in 2023 for example when the only guaranteed contract is Yelich that the Brewers window is closed then? Who knows who will even be on the team then and building around Yelich is a dang good start.
It’s skewed a bit. They’ve brought some outstanding contributors to MLB, this taking away from their farm system. I’d rather have a good team than good farm system anyway. Woodruff, Peralta, Burnes, Hiura, etc. the Brewers have treated others like marketable assets and dealt them instead of worshipping them. They’re treating them like the boom or bust penny stocks that most prospects are.
Good points, Dhonk. All but the absolute best (Dodgers, Rays) of farm systems go through these cycles after a series of promotions and trades.
yeah, it’s pretty easy to forget that just a few seasons ago the brewers had a top-3 farm system. So far, Stearns has been right on just about every prospect he has called up or traded away from that “elite” farm, and that’s one of the only reasons the farm is ranked where it is (and the reason the MLB team is as good as it is).
And that’s not even mentioning that the Crew’s farm is loaded with super-high ceiling lottery tickets. If any one of those prospects turn out (Luis Medina is my guess) the farm will be ranked so much higher.
id say everyone but the Dodgers and the Rays, who tend to churj out talent consistently. I like the Yankees as a good comp actually.
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What a stupid thing to say. The whole post. Just really dumb.
Most of these negative comments are more than likely the same people that said the brewers overachieved the past two years. David Stearns knows what he is doing and the owner will spend money to push them over the jump to make a run. Brewers are still top 3 in a very tough division.
I can think of a few teams who would like the problem of trying to make a 3rd straight trip to the postseason while not having a bad contract on the books
Let’s change over to being intelligent human beings and keep this to baseball.