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Originally Posted by Arlie Rahn
But why? Arizona's payroll after this deal (even with a move for Green) is about $60 million. Then, you add in all they cash they have gotten in deals and you are back at around $50 million. Remember, Arizona has had $56 million in salaries off the books with the losses of Johnson, Sexson, Mantei, Finley, Batista, Dessens, Colbrunn, Alomar and others. Even if you add in the new $17.45 million they spent on guys like Glaus, Ortiz, Counsell and Clayton, you are still way ahead. Plus, in this Yankees deal, NY is sending $9 mil to cover almost all of Vazquez's 05 salary.
You can't look at the Arizona signings without accounting for the salary losses in guys like Sexson ($9 mil) and Mantei ($7 mil).
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But you forgot this is the team that's supposed to be in deep financial trouble for several years. Yet the team kept pushing the debt back instead of figuring out a way to repay them. The attendence has been going downhill, and the team is spending all the new money raised on high risk players with ridiculous contracts.
You can't look at the Arizona signings without accounting for the deep debt they got, including all the deferred salaries. Take Randy Johnson for example, his 16.55mil in 2004 for example, 6 millon of that was actually deferred to 2006.
It makes more sense for the team to take a salary budget dive now, and balance the books. If they kept running a deficit with a sub .500 team, ruining the fan base on the way, how are they gonna spend when they actually rebound?