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Payrolls are not being lowered, and you inherited a fiscally bad team. Dye hasn't retired yet as the White Sox are considering bringing him back. You would only save $1m if you cut him. Now, the Mets cap is currently at $200m. A 30% max min range would put you anywhere between $140m and $260m for 2011. However, these cap formulas would guarantee you 75% of your 2010 cap though which is $150m. You'll then get an additional 25% based on record. If your Mets were the worst team again then they would like get about $25m on top of that putting you at $175m. If they were the best then you would get about $62.5m on top of that giving you a total of $212.5m. Therefore, your true range is about $175m to $212.5m, hardly anything to set off an alarm about.
You guys are killing me......the only way to get in some way competitive is to buy my way out of this payroll morass that I inherited and now you are going to lower my payroll and still make my pay for retired guys.....I wish the guy was really lazy then I wouldn't have so much work to do!!
All I am saying is that the top three tiers (6 teams) would follow the old rules for one more year (2011) whereas the rest of the league would use the new cap formula. This gives a couple big market teams such as the Phillies and Mets time to shed some contracts or not resign certain players.For example, say the Mets (currently in tier #2) spend enough money in 2010 that would put them in to tier #4 for 2011. Since they are one of the top three tiers in 2010, they will then have a cap of $125m. The new rule would not apply to them no matter what.
Looks pretty good Colby. I'd say we want to enforce MAX/MIN cap rooms as well, with something similar to what our current high and low's are (250/50, although maybe we could reduce the spread a little bit).