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Originally Posted by Parallex
Balderdash. Based on committed money and projected arbitration awards The Jays open day payroll will be $10,000,000.00 higher.
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The opening day payroll was lower last year than it was at the end of the year, and without even consideration of that, the following big contracts came off the Blue Jays books:
Buerhle - 20M
Romero - 7.775M
Izturis - 3M
Navarro - 5M
Reyes - 6.5M (Reyes made 22 M - Tulo makes 15.5M)
So I have a hard time believing that their opening day salary will be 10M higher now than it was last year, let alone that it will be higher than it was at the end of the year. They dropped almost 43 M in salary, and so far have only added 12M in Happ, 2M in Smoak, and 8M in Estrada (he made 4M last year).