Salary Table

This is a little rough right now, but quite frankly, I can't waste any more time trying to pretty this thing up. Not a lot of analysis has gone into this other than assuming Rowand and Vizciano will not be playing for the Sox next year, and Paulie will. I think Rowand will be traded, Hernandez should be kept over Vizciano, and would like to see Paulie back at $13M/per year.

Now Konoerko doesn't put up the type of numbers to justify that amount of money. Although I happen to think they will in fact improve as his walk rate went up dramatically and he has a very simple swing that I think will age well. Even still, Ithink the Sox would be able to get more for their money by not signing him for $13m, but the "fan" in me wants see Paulie in a Sox uniform next year. Anything over that amount and the Sox will have to let him walk. I hope it doesn't come to that.

Salaries in RED are my best guess at the final free agent/arbitration numbers. I think the table shows that Sox do have some flexibilty to trade some salaries and fill some holes. The main thing missing from the roster below is a dependable backup for Uribe.

2006 ROSTER

Position Players	DH/Bench	Rotation	Bullpen
Pierzynski c $4m	Thomas DH $4m	Buehrle lhp $7.65m	Jenks rhp $350K
Konerko 1b $13m	Borchard of $500K	Contreras rhp $9m	Hermanson rhp $3m
Iguchi 2b $2.4m	Ozuna if $500K	Garland rhp $6m	Cotts lhp $1m
Crede 3b $2.5m	Harris if $400K	Garcia rhp $9m	Politte rhp $1.2m
Uribe ss $3.15m	Widger c $650k	McCarthy rhp $350K	Marte lhp $2.5m
Podesdnik lf $1.9m	Gload DH $400k		Hernandez rhp $4.5m
Anderson cf $335k
Dye rf $5m
TOTAL $32.3m	TOTAL $6.4m	TOTAL $32m	TOTAL $12.6m
OVERALL	PAYROLL:	$83.3m