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Sorry if this is too basic for you, but I want to make sure you know these issues too. Keep in mind that those numbers lump lots of things in that may never happen, or may happen differently. For example, the numbers listed for guys due arbitration are estimates only, they can be higher or you can sometimes chisel them down in the hearing. Or just nontender them and they go away. More importantly, guys with long term deals are on the salary schedule even though there may be vesting or team options during the period. So, my Mets owe Robbie Cano for 2020 and 2021, and the budgets list him for years after that. But there's a team option for 2022, so I don't care what numbers are on the schedule after that for him, but OOTP does. It won't let me spend that $20M on someone else to extend them or whatever, it assumes you're spending that money.
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