Perez has major league ABs so he doesn't qualify for the EDR.

Thanks for letting me know that, I was going by the prospect contract criteria, so in this case I will also need to take Brignac off of the EDR as well.  The other 8 players will still be placed on EDR please (whoever is in charge of that).

Sorry for the mix up fellas.

P Nick Barnese
P Jeremy Hellickson
P Jake McGee
P Matt Moore
P James Houser
MI Tim Beckham
MI Reid Brignac
C John Jaso
OF Desmond Jennings
OF Fernando Perez

These moves should effectively free up 5M for 2010 season, allowing the Rays to extend the contracts of a player or two.

.5M

.5M

I understand now, thanks for the clarification.  I will do 5M for 3 yrs.

Having said that, I would like to bring something forth for discussion amongst the rules comittee.  With the salary structure rules the way they are (must be 500K increments), it SEVERELY further hinders the efforts of small market clubs like the Rays and others.  In the example of Napoli, I go from a winning bid of 14M that could be potentially spread out to lessen the yearly salary to having to at best pay him 5M per year, in which case my "winning bid" of 14M is now un-necessarily a 15M bid.  When you are the Rays and dealing with a 70M payroll, every penny counts.  I'd like to suggest we be allowed to better divide the the total dollars owed.  Otherwise the gap between teams like the Yankees and Rays will only grow further apart.  If we are to adhere to a hard cap that varies by team, those handcuffed teams should have a bit of flexibility to at least have a puncher's chance of building a winner inside of 5 years.  Just my two cents.