05-28-2009, 12:20 PM
<!--quoteo(post=40769:date=May 28 2009, 11:15 AM:name=BT)-->QUOTE (BT @ May 28 2009, 11:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Clearing 10 million dollars off of your payroll to sign a FA, and being cost conscious can be 2 separate things. You can do the former without doing the latter.
The Guadin and especially Vizcaino salaries are completely irrelevant. They were sunk costs. The Cubs were paying them no matter what, so eating them was inevitable. If they were replaced by shitty guys earning the same amount of money as them, ie if they went out and signed Daniel Cabrera for 5 million after cutting Vizcaino, you are right, it wouldn't make sense. They were instead replaced by guys already on the roster.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So are you really saying that the $3M dollars we saved with Miles on the roster instead of DeRosa was the motivating factor for trading him? What is that? 2% of our total payroll? If we can eat any salary at all, surely we can eat the extra $3M to keep a player of DeRosa's talent on the roster.
The Guadin and especially Vizcaino salaries are completely irrelevant. They were sunk costs. The Cubs were paying them no matter what, so eating them was inevitable. If they were replaced by shitty guys earning the same amount of money as them, ie if they went out and signed Daniel Cabrera for 5 million after cutting Vizcaino, you are right, it wouldn't make sense. They were instead replaced by guys already on the roster.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
So are you really saying that the $3M dollars we saved with Miles on the roster instead of DeRosa was the motivating factor for trading him? What is that? 2% of our total payroll? If we can eat any salary at all, surely we can eat the extra $3M to keep a player of DeRosa's talent on the roster.