The good thing about the Beltran deal is that it was only one year. I don't think we'd go for $17 or 18 million though. The most depressing part of Mellinger's article was that projected opening day payroll is $148 million. I didn't realize it was quite that high.
That might very well be a top 10 payroll. I agree I just don't see Glass signing a guy like Beltran and pushing that to near $170 million. I'm not sure DM would do that either. I could see DM pulling off a Rios-type signing though and maybe getting it to $150-160 million. Since they play this "poor us" card every offseason though, who really knows.
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