MLB Trade Rumors has an excellent series of articles summarizing teams’ contractual obligations heading into 2007. The Giants’ outlook was just posted and it took me by surprise.
My opinion of Brian Sabean isn’t very high. To me, he’s chased past-prime veterans with expensive contract, eschewed first-round draft picks to save pocket change, and generally avoided any opportunity to make his team younger.
But today I realized that the franchise only has two significantly bad contracts on the books (Benitez at $7 mil and Matt Morris at $9 mil). If the team’s spending stays consistent, they’ve got $48 mil left to fill out the roster. Hot damn! Maybe Sabean was riding out Bonds’ good years with expensive veterans (although I would have done it differently) and purposely planned all along to purge significant contracts in 2007.
The Giants’ rotation is quite young and talented. If Sabean spends wisely (cringe), the Giants could challenge the Diamondbacks next year.
By the way, if you agree with me that the MLB Trade Rumors site is a pain to read, just add the RSS feed to your favorite feed reader.
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Sky is a baseball fan and racket sport afficianado living in upstate NY. His favorite color is orange and is just about ready to give up on his life-long dream to become the next Magnus ver Magnuson (World's Strongest Man). His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees and Red Sox, proving that there's hope in the Middle East.
October 14th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
i was just looking at the wesite and saw he has free agent pitchers analyzed. he for some reason thinks pettitte might retire even though he’s only 34. any chance of him returning to the yanks, or did he leave them cuz he wanted to be in the NL?