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How did we get to the certainty that the M's have a big year, big $$ offer on the table? All I've seen is internet speculation and some vague Jack-isms about having the resources to make a move if one fell in his lap.
The M's were going to cut payroll last season until Jack and Armstrong made a pitch to keep it level with 2010. And then they went to the media and made darn sure that everyone knew it. Nothing like that has happened this year. The only things I've read about payroll outside the blogosphere are the "if they want to keep payroll the same" clauses that Stone and Baker use when they speculate and the "the M's are interested but don't have the money" items coming from the national press.
There is a pretty good chance that the M's are going into the season with an $89 million payroll and that it's been the plan all along. Those folks that said that the M's only had $4-5 million left to spend (that we all dismissed a weekor so ago) may have been right all along.