Jake Odorizzi

[Canada8999]

Jake Odorizzi (P, MIL)

He's in the Brewers system, can I add him without bidding?

[Colby]

Jake Odorizzi (P, MIL)

He's in the Brewers system, can I add him without bidding?

Unfortunately, you will have to bid on him. 

[Colby]

Ben, do you still want to open a bid on him?

[Canada8999]

Brewers: $0.5M

(and I guess the 72-hour clock starts now, rather than anything based off the previous posts)

[Colby]

Brewers: $0.5M

(and I guess the 72-hour clock starts now, rather than anything based off the previous posts)

This bid is guaranteed to be open until Friday at 4:49 PM EST.  If you had posted this about 10 minutes later, it would have to wait until the weekend was over (or Sunday night).

[Colby]

Brewers: $0.5M

(and I guess the 72-hour clock starts now, rather than anything based off the previous posts)

You won the bid, but you will need to clear some cap space for Odorizzi.

[Canada8999]

Assuming I have correctly interpreted the Release Rule (can't afford to use the new Contract Buyout clause), we'll release Suppan.

- Any player dropped before the trade deadline still has part of his contract count against the cap in the following manner:  Current year: 90%, Next year: 60%, All future years after: 30%.
- If the player is dropped after the trade deadline, then the hit to the cap changes to 75%, 50%, 25%, respectively.
- The hit against the cap is rounded to the nearest $500,000.  Therefore, if it ends up being less than $250,000, the hit to the cap will be zero for that year.

Jeff Suppan - $10.5M, 2010, released after the trade deadline, cap hit is 75/50 for 2009/2010

2009: 10.5*0.75=7.875~8.0 (savings of 2.5M)
2010: 10.5*0.50=5.250~5.5 (savings of 5.0M)

[Colby]

Assuming I have correctly interpreted the Release Rule (can't afford to use the new Contract Buyout clause), we'll release Suppan.

Jeff Suppan - $10.5M, 2010, released after the trade deadline, cap hit is 75/50 for 2009/2010

2009: 10.5*0.75=7.875~8.0 (savings of 2.5M)
2010: 10.5*0.50=5.250~5.5 (savings of 5.0M)

Official roster will be updated in a second.. waiting on Fantrax to add Odorizzo and Strieby (still)