Quick Payroll Summary:why the Braves don't have extra money

[KB 34]

Here's a quick explanation to where the Braves are salary wise. Unless Liberty decides otherwise, the Braves are looking at a $80 million cap until further notice. To explain some of the strange contracts I'll include my writeups on each. As anyone can see, the Braves are in trouble for 2008. 7 players will cost about $59 million. This means there is NOT room to retain Andruw at even $15 million without creating room through a Renteria trade for example. There also isn't room to bring in a slightly cheaper player at more like the $10 million range since this would leave about more like $10 million to fill a roster with 17 more players. Mike Hampton's injury and insurance situation could change this but for now I'm not counting my chickens before they're hatched.

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                              2007      2008      
Andruw Jones              $13.5M         
Chipper Jones               $11M      $11M      
Mike Hampton              $8M      $8M      
John Smoltz                $8M        $14M      
Edgar Renteria               $7.3M   $7.3M      
Bob Wickman              $6.5M         
Tim Hudson               $6M       $13M      
Mike Gonzalez              $2.35M  ($3.3M) arb. est.      
Rafael Soriano               $1.2M   ($2.5M) arb. est.      
Craig Wilson                $2M         
Chris Woodward            $.85M         
Tanyon Sturtze              $.75/$1.1M         
                      
            12 players   $67.5M   7 players   $59.1M
            total (approx)   $76M


Mike Hampton:
What we know:
-Hampton

[A-Town Connection]

I would like some pitching help at the deadline, so i hope you are right

[NDaATL]

Hampton's contract is HORRIBLE..

[Mardy2Curry]

Hampton is killing us and will cuase us to probably lose AJ.

[KB 34]

Honestly, Andruw's getting older and while I'd like to keep him, even with a $20 million payroll increase my maximum offer to him would be 6 years $90 million. The market's completely insane and he's going to get way more than that so I've decided to enjoy him while he's still here and accept the fact that only a huge favor by Liberty and a huge favor by Andruw can keep him in Atlanta with a deal that I can support.

[A-Town Connection]

I love Andrew, but i have been saying all season i dont want to break the bank for him, esp if it cost us alot of other people

[Mardy2Curry]

If he doesn't get his act together and stop swinging for the fences every AB he won't be getting what he wants imo.