Alderson: 2013 should look like end of '12

[StoicSentry]

Beltran, Reyes, K Rod, Castillo, etc. have all been taken off the books.

Bay has had money deferred, as has Wright for his contract.

Yet you can't sign a Nick Swisher or a Ryan Ludwick or whatever with that cash? Come on, son.

"Again, it's hard for me to predict what exactly will happen," Alderson said. "But we're not going to spend the money in mid-December just because we have it. We may spend it in January. We may spend it at some other time. We may not spend it. But the important thing is we have the flexibility to make a baseball decision about that rather than be constrained by sort of an artificial financial limitation."

Hard to predict? I'll bet my savings on the "we may not spend it" option.