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The M's have a LOT of unspent payroll in the speedloader, but yeah, thass' ay prow-blem...
$18m to Felix and Lee, the same to AGone and Ichiro, $9m to Figgins, that's $80m on five players, very well spent.
The rest is going to be going to Scrubs. You build around those five vets, then you're going to be using Ackley, RRS, Fister, Saunders, Tui, Moore, etc etc down the rest of the way.
Have not seen somebody pencil out what the payroll would have to be, to extend Lee and also bring in AGone. But the M's have been in on Gonzalez, right? Maybe that's why they're pinching pennies even on a $4-5m Washburn deal?