{"id":5421,"date":"2012-12-05T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2013-02-07T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T16:16:22","slug":"nats-2013-salary-status-updated-post-haren-duke-signings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"Nats 2013 Salary Status Updated &#8211; Post Haren, Duke signings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how much changes in just a couple days during the Winter Meetings. \u00a0The signing of <strong>Dan Haren<\/strong> and to a lesser extent <strong>Zach Duke<\/strong> now provide a bit more clarity to the Nats off-season plans. \u00a0Terms of the Duke deal have yet to be disclosed, but I&#8217;m going under the assumption that its about a one year, $1.5M deal to be safe.<\/p>\n<p>Using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5374\">12\/3\/12 post on this same topic<\/a> as a point of reference (I won&#8217;t repeat all the contract details here; see this post for the way I arrive at these numbers, or click on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/ccc?key=0Aoe2S6_m1TendHdfWVNNMGpXcXVnbnUxd0pldDRvNmc\">2013 Payroll Worksheet link<\/a> along the right-hand side of the blog), here&#8217;s where the Nats payroll now breaks down:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Players under Contract for 2013:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>was 12 players for $66,708,500<\/li>\n<li>now 14 players for <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$81,208,500<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Arbitration Cases for 2013<\/em><\/strong>: remains 7 players with an <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$18,600,000<\/span> estimate.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pre-Arbitration players with club-Assigned Salaries<\/em><\/strong>: remains 7 players with a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$3,490,000<\/span> estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Totaled up, the Nats now stand at an estimated 2013 payroll of <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">$103,298,500<\/span>. \u00a0As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natsinsider.com\/2012\/12\/nats-still-have-money-to-spend.html\"><strong>Mark Zuckerman<\/strong> alluded to<\/a>, this is the first time the Nats payroll has broached 9 figures.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My theory is that the team has a working goal of $110M salary. \u00a0 If we sit at $103M now, with a couple of signings\/decisions yet to be made (namely, to\u00a0<strong>Adam LaRoche<\/strong> or not to Adam LaRoche and to find another loogy), can we hit $110M? \u00a0Seems so:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Add LaRoche at $14M\/per.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Subtract Morse at $6.75M for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Add Loogy-to-be-named (<strong>JP Howell<\/strong>?) at a nominal amount (he made $1.35M last year and seems like he could be had for about the same this year).<\/p>\n<p>$103M + $14M &#8211; $6.75M + $1.5M = $111.7M dollars, or just slightly above a $110M budget. \u00a0Seems like a workable plan to me. \u00a0If $110M was a hard and fast budget line, we could eschew the final loogy signing and hope that <strong>Bill Bray<\/strong> makes the team out of camp, earning something close to a veteran minimum salary of about $800k.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how much changes in just a couple days during the Winter Meetings. \u00a0The signing of Dan Haren and to a lesser extent Zach Duke now provide a bit more clarity to the Nats off-season plans. \u00a0Terms of the Duke deal have yet to be disclosed, but I&#8217;m going under the assumption that its about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[184,820,983,1266,301,136,906],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natsgeneral","tag-adam-laroche","tag-bill-bray","tag-dan-haren","tag-jp-howell","tag-mark-zuckerman","tag-michael-morse","tag-zach-duke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5951,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}