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You know you've hit rockbottom when someone pays you 17 million to leave. Now that they have kissed that much money away the cheap pickups will start rolling in from the MASH Unit. Thank God they finally did it because there is no justifying keeping a .156 hitter on your roster no matter how much he's making.
Someone please explain how Sandy presumably talked the Wilpons into this.
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The Wilpons and the Katzs' are businessmen,Sandy is a lawyer, they knew they needed to do something and quickly to free up some money for this off season WITHOUT raising payroll, so they concocted this option "What if we offer Jason Bay a buyout...we owe him 21 million and change so let's offer him this...5 million up front and 16million in deferred salary with payments beginning in 2015 at say 4Million per year plus 6% interests on the principal amount, and we will offer him unconditional free agency to boot"
Now I am not saying this is the EXACT way it came about or the EXACT terms of the deal they made but it is a very probable scenario which allows Bay to seek other options during the off season and frees up at least another 10million(and possibly as much as 16million) for immediate use.
It made sense for the front office and it made sense to Bay both of who won't have to wait for spring training to get resolution to the situation.
This is IMHO how it all came about.
I don't believe a significant portion was defered, according to reports, and Sandy believes he has a little more flexibilty, not a lot.
well that is all about "Definition" how does he define "a little more" when you are talking about a payroll with a strict 100million cap,when you knew 80million plus was spoken for in contractual obligations, plus figure another 12 million minimum for position players due a raise and you're quickly over 90million, somehow, someway you also have to put say 2-3 million aside for call ups/injury replacement players and voila you are now at 95million which has left you nearly nothing to fill in the gaps that MUST be addressed. 10-16million more in the coffers from a deferred payment buyout of Jason Bay would then just be that..offer a "little" more flexibility, I would think the definition of "a lot more" would be 25-30% added to payroll, not the 10% the Jason Bay buyout(at least under the the speculative terms I posted) would qualify as just what Sandy said...a little more.
I think until the actual facts of the buyout leak(which they will eventually) it's all just moot talking points for us.
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