TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
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Here's the final entries for the TCR Free Agent Frenzy Contest.
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2010 CUBS PAYROLL INFO
Last updated 2-4-2010
Cubs Detailed Depth Chart
AZ Phil's Roster Info
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2010 CUBS MLB PAYROLL: $134.8M
NOTE: Total does not include performance bonuses not yet earned, and signing bonuses are only included if all or part of the bonus is actually paid this season
+ Player has "NO TRADE" rights
NOTE: Byrd, Grabow, and Nady have "no trade" only through 6/15/2010
SIGNED FOR 2010
+ 12 Alfonso Soriano, OF - $18M
+ 38 Carlos Zambrano, RHP - $17.875M
+ 16 Aramis Ramirez, 3B - $15.75M
+ 1 Kosuke Fukudome, OF - $13M
+ 25 Derrek Lee, 1B - $13M
+ 46 Ryan Dempster, RHP - $12.5M
+ 30 Ted Lilly, LHP - $12M
52 Carlos Silva, RHP - $6M (see NOTE)
+ 22 Xavier Nady, OF - $3.3M
+ 43 John Grabow, LHP - $3.25M
+ 24 Marlon Byrd, OF - $3M
+ 29 Jeff Samardzija, RHP - $2.5M
49 Carlos Marmol, RHP - $2.125M
17 Mike Fontenot, 2B - $1M
28 Jeff Baker, INF - $975K
45 Sean Marshall, LHP - $950K
37 Angel Guzman, RHP - $825K
32 Tom Gorzelanny, LHP - $800K
55 Koyie Hill, C - $700K
SUB-TOTAL (SIGNED PLAYERS): $127.55M
NOTE: Mariners pay $5.5M of Silva's $11.5M salary in 2010.
PERFORMANCE BONUS:
Xavier Nady - can earn additional $2M (games played)
OTHER:
Aaron Miles - $1M (traded to A's)
SUB-TOTAL (OTHER): $1M
SALARY ARBITRATION:
2 Ryan Theriot, SS ($2.6M - $3.4M)
PROJECTED SUB-TOTAL (SALARY ARBITRATION): $3M
AUTO-RENEWAL:
63 James Adduci, OF
60 Mitch Atkins, RHP
64 Justin Berg, RHP
13 Andres Blanco, INF
33 Esmailin Caridad, RHP
72 Welington Castillo, C
21 Tyler Colvin, OF
66 Rafael Dolis, RHP
27 Sam Fuld, OF
48 John Gaub, LHP
34 Jeff Gray, RHP
6 Micah Hoffpauir, 1B
62 Marcos Mateo, RHP
47 Mike Parisi, RHP
58 Blake Parker, RHP
54 David Patton, RHP
18 Geovany Soto, C
44 Jeff Stevens, RHP
36 Randy Wells, RHP
PROJECTED SUB-TOTAL (AUTO-RENEWAL): $3.25M (includes estimated $1M in split salaries for players on 40-man roster who are on Optional Assignment to minors)
NOTE: An auto-renewal player can have his contract automatically renewed by the club during the first week of March if an agreement is not reached by that time.
The 2010 MLB mimimum salary is $400K, with a $65K minor league split minimum ($32.5K minor league split minimum for players with no MLB Service Time who are on 40-man roster for the first time), and minor league split salary must be at least 60% of what player was actually paid in salary the previous season.
SPRING TRAINING NRI:
70 Andrew Cashner, RHP
79 Casey Coleman, RHP
20 Thomas Diamond, RHP
78 Jeff Kennard, RHP
68 J. R. Mathes, LHP
53 Vince Perkins, RHP
76 James Russell, LHP
71 Robinson Chirinos, C
74 Steve Clevenger, C-1B
73 Blake Lalli, C-1B
75 Chris Robinson, C
65 Darwin Barney, INF
57 Matt Camp, IF-OF
67 Starlin Castro, INF
4 Bryan Lahair, 1B-OF
Kevin Millar, 1B-OF
15 Bobby Scales, IF-OF
9 Chad Tracy, 1B-3B
61 Josh Vitters, 3B
59 Brett Jackson, OF
56 Brad Snyder, OF
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#1 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
Sweet use of embedded Google docs! Nicely done.
#2 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
Thanks, Rob!!!
#3 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
Looks like Wood is going to burn a lot of us.
#4 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
now that is the definition of irony
#5 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
I'm just surprised Rob G. didn't swap out one of these guys for Mark Prior.
#25 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
Only two of us picked him to leave the Cubs? Weird.
#6 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
Good thing I only had 2 points on Demp. Wood signing with Rangers looks like it could get me a win in this thing if Sabathia doesnt sign with the Yankees.
#7 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
we need some new big cubs news so the dumpster can stop pointing at me on the main page.
#8 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
How about this one-
http://ac4.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/40bb0c7e103ddb7e
#9 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
I find it strangely motivating.
#10 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
i just keep thinking of technoviking when i see a blank expressionless pointing dude...im trying to not think about technoviking...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwsntHcWiy4
...some bad language and probably not the least bit funny to anyone not exposed to rave culture. he pulls off the "pointing thing" twice in the 1st half of the video.
and for those that watch...it's some german dude and others at a "counter protest party" to berlin's "Love Parade" in 2000 which has/had lost it's techno roots and is more concerned with horrible progressive trance, big beat, house, and commercial electronic music acts.
#12 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
I take it techno, trance, big beat, house, and electronic are different from each other?
#13 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
yeah, its just subculture semantics.
big beat would be "fat boy slim" type stuff...describing the differences between house, trance, and techno would bore the piss outta ya.
and no, i'm not one of those people (if anyone has run into them) that gets upset when someone calls all electronic music "techno."
#14 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
My favorite techno music is Moby. That cat can't be beat.
#15 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
I had no idea there were so many iterations.
Oh, and Moby? It's over. NOOOObody listens to techno!!!
#16 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
I know that's an Eminem reference, but I just want to make things clear: I don't like Moby. I was being hilarious.
#17 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
it can get really weird when you get into the lesser popular sub-genres.
this is one. speedcore...it's umm...well people make a living at it....amazingly. people will go to places where DJs and live acts play this stuff for 8-12 hours.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqjyQbZ-WZg
#21 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
Dammit brick i was going to post that!
you forgot the "you're too old" part too
booooooooooooooooooo!
#33 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
you forgot IDM (intelligent dance music) like Mouse on Mars. Kind of ironic since none of it actually is.
The stereotypes are funny to me though. Ravers in petroleum based clothing, visors, glow stick waiving ecstasy tweakers.
#11 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
http://blogs.suburbanchicagonews.com/sportsbeacon/...
#18 Re: TCR Free Agent Frenzy Update
Wasn't there points last season where Kerry Wood had the whole Technoviking Goatee-man-chu thing going on? If only Sweet Lou would bring him and upside down bottle of Wah-tah!
#19 When 90's rock stars Feud
http://homerderby.com/archives/2986
Billy Corgan:
If … If … IF … the Cubs did have a chance this last year that just passed … Fuckin’ Eddie Vedder killed that shit dead. Last I checked Eddie ain’t living here, Okay?
Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my fuckin’ team.
#20 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
bwhahahaha.
#22 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
the only problem is that Eddie Vedder is awesome. Corgan and Pumpkins blow chunks.
If you're so great then you write a song about the Cubs you bald John Kitna lookalike!
#27 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
I got the impression that Vedder's song is actually from '07. I can't remember why... Does he say something on the live recording? Was it labeled 2007? I could be wrong.
#34 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
when did Eddie Vedder become awesome?
#35 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
About the same time that Jeremy began speaking in class.
#36 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
I don't know why this would seem fresh to anyone. Pumpkins and Pearl Jam have had a media battle for years going back to the 90's heyday of when they were at the top of their respective games making mediocre music targeted for people in my demo. Don't you remember all of those Pumpkins/Hole jokes made on Pearl Jam for doing group hugs on stage and that kind of fodder? What I remember most about the forgettable "grunge" era was the time when Billy Corgan was on Sports Channel's Sports Reporters program with Rick Telander kissing his ass the entire time with Bill Gleason blowing stoagie smoke in his face for an hour. That was pull the covers over your head bad-great TV.
#37 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
I never liked Smashing Pumpkins. Way to whiny for me. I didn't like Pearl Jam then, but I appreciate some of their stuff a little more now.
That feud was nothing compared to that epic Eminem-Moby feud. Seriously, Moby? That's who you choose to feud with?
Big-Pac...Dre-Dupree...Jay-Nas. Man these rappers need to chill the fuck out.
Ja-Rule looked like one of those child body-builders.
#38 Re: When 90's rock stars Feud
horrible call.
PJ is the best band since, probably, Gun N' Roses.
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