Submitted by: CraftBrew
July 11, 2019
Diamondbacks
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availablility | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lutz | Minors | OF | 17.4 | 13.9 | 17.4 | 20.9 | ||||||
| Supak | Minors | RHP | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
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Is $30 million gonna be enough for a smaller market team like Milwaukee? At $126 million already, and with Greinke owed $70 million for the 2020-21 seasons, I just can’t see them adding the payroll even if they should.
I wouldn’t say it’s “likely” by any means, but Attanasio has alluded to having additional financial flexibility to add payroll at the deadline. The $30 million would basically cover the remainder of Greinke’s salary this year and nearly half of his $35 million salary in 2020. The Brewers have $26 million invested in Grandal and Moustakas who will both likely forego their mutual options to become free agents following this season. Ryan Braun’s contract includes $19 million this year, $17 million in 2020, and then in 2021 they will almost certainly exercise his $4 million buyout which would be the same year they’d owe Greinke $35 million in his final year of the contract.
It’s not likely they spend to the level that would be required to make this move, but I don’t think $126 million is necessarily their salary ceiling either.