Friday, November 18, 2005

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 PlayersDH/BenchRotationBullpen
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
OVERALLPAYROLL:$83.3m