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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.


Mike Hampton:
What we know:
-Hampton

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

Hampton's contract is HORRIBLE..

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

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.

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

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.