Jon Becker: In concept, you may get via a season with a payroll of, say, $30-$40M when you have been that dedicated to cheapness, although after all they’re not going to really go that low. Proper now I’ve bought them at $95M, already considerably decrease than $136M for this yr. That’s earlier than choosing up Topa’s possibility (or simply going to arb with him) and non-tendering doubtless candidates like Tonkin, Cabrera, and Misiewicz. They very effectively might get underneath $110M even when Buxton insists on staying by transferring López, Jeffers, and Ryan. However I’m unsure I anticipate that a lot of a blow-up since they bought a number of MLB-ready guys within the trades.