Let’s review the pre-1997 season post for the payroll table in entirety.
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Originally Posted by Westheim
Payroll table time. Be assured this ain’t pretty. The following is our payroll structure on the eve of the 1997 season. As usual, players on the minimum are omitted. Players that either have more than six years of service time or have less than 1 1/2 years of service time are omitted from the appendix.
1B/2B David Brewer - $1.5M ($6.2M through 2000)
SP Kisho Saito - $1M ($2M through 1998)
OF Neil Reece - $950k ($4.2M through 2000)
INF Jorge Salazar - $945k (will be free agent) #
3B/1B Ben O’Morrissey - $900k ($6.2M through 2002)
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OF Royce Green - $821k (will be free agent) #
LF Vern Kinnear - $550k (will be free agent) #
SP Miguel Lopez - $480k (will be arbitration eligible) *
C David Vinson - $450k (will be free agent) #
1B Liam Wedemeyer - $380k (will be arbitration eligible) *
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MR Andres Otero - $350k (will be free agent) #
INF Marvin Ingall - $300k (will be arbitration eligible) *
CL Tzu-jao Ban - $270k (will be free agent) #
SP Scott Wade - $270k ($550k through 1998)
MR Gabriel De La Rosa - $210k (will be arbitration eligible) *
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MR Daniel Miller - $200k ($1M through 2000)
MR Jose Ramos - $164k (will be free agent) #
C Nori Kondo - $159k (will be arbitration eligible) *
* Service times (y.d): Ban (5.153), Ramos (5.077), Green (5.019), Kinnear (5.008), Lopez (4.073), Wedemeyer (3.118), Kondo (3.076), De La Rosa (3.008), Ingall (2.163)
In addition to that, the following players will be (or could be under the super 2 clause) arbitration eligible: Salcido (1.153), Newton (1.116 – unlikely)
We will have 17 players on a minimum contract. Total payroll amounts to approximately $11.8M (plus $1.8M for staff), which is too much for a $16.4M budget to remain competitive in the “soft” areas of scouting and development. I will have $2.9M in those and we are still overbudget.
Hard year ahead, and don’t even get me started on the flock of players that will stretch their open hands out to me once fall kicks in.
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Yeah, thank god we kept the flock together, huh? You will hardly find any name again on the 1998 table:
Players on the minimum are omitted. Players that either have more than six years of service time or have less than 1 1/2 years of service time, or have signed a contract that will outlast their arbitration eligibility are omitted from the appendix.
OF Neil Reece - $1.1M ($3.3M through 2000)
SP Kisho Saito - $1M (will be free agent) #
SP Miguel Lopez - $550k ($3M through 2002)
INF Marvin Ingall - $500k ($2M through 2001)
1B Liam Wedemeyer - $500k (will be arbitration eligible) *
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SP Manuel Movonda - $425k (will be free agent) #
C Werner Turner - $380k (will be free agent) #
MR Gabriel De La Rosa - $350k ($1.4M through 2001)
CL Scott Wade - $280k (will be free agent) #
MR Brad Tamburrino - $240k (will be free agent) #
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MR Daniel Miller - $230k ($800k through 2000)
INF/LF/CF Jai Utting - $200k (will be arbitration eligible) *
C Mario Guerrero - $200k (will be free agent) #
MR Alonso Santana - $171k (will be arbitration eligible) *
RF/CF Jorge Villegas - $171k (will be arbitration eligible) *
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SP Bryce Hildred - $150k (will return to minimum contract) *
* Service times (y.d): Turner (5.034), Tamburrino (5.000), Wedemeyer (4.118), Villegas (3.095), Utting (2.169), Santana (2.153), Newton (2.116), Rivera (2.003)
In addition to that, the following players will be (or could be under the super 2 clause) arbitration eligible: Donis (1.167)
Quite a difference, huh? Well, we rank a sound 22nd in payroll this season for a reason after going from $11.8M in player payroll all the way down to $8.6M.