Phillies 2010 Player Salaries and Overall Payroll

As of Jan.21, 2010


Thanks to the wonderful website Cot's Baseball Contracts I was able to build this spreadsheet with the Phillies salaries for 2010.  I did this so that we could have an idea of what the owners are seeing on their books and how much flexibility they have with the roster. A few things to take note with this spreadsheet.

• Unless it was done on the Cot's Contracts site, I did not prorate the signing bonus over the life of the contract, I just added it to the first year's salary (since that is when the Phillies will have to pay it).
• Contract Renewals and Arbitration still needs to be decided for many of the younger players, but that will not come until January.  Those players are in italics.
• I haven't included them yet but you can expect a number of other rookies or youngsters to be added to the roster at a salary close to the league minimum ($400,000).

Given all of that and the $6,000,000 from the Blue Jays and the reported desire of the Phillies to keep their payroll below $140,000,000, I believe the Phillies have about $10,000,000 to operate with for the rest of the off-season.  Keep in mind that with another great season expect a lot of raises in arbitration and the possible performance incentive payments.  Any comments or questions feel free to comment or e-mail me.

Updated with announcement of Shane Victorino extension, but don't have details yet.

Roy Halladay Close to Becoming a Phillie

Update: Roy Halladay is a Philadelphia Phillie and we can thank his family partially for that.  Prospects came and went and Roy will be here for at least 4 seasons.  Check out my Google Shared Items over on the right for all the great articles dissecting the deal.  It's the biggest deal of the off-season so everyone has chimed in with their opinion.

Best Sports Commercials

I'm trying to get together some of the best sports commercials, if you have any suggestions tell me in the comments and I'll add them to this post.  Eventually when its grown enough I want to try and rank them, but that's a ways away.

Courage (Nike)

No matter what your opinions are about Nike, everyone has to like this commercial.  If you didn't like this one, you probably won't have similar opinions has me on the rest of these commercials.

Leave Nothing - LT vs Polamalu (Nike)

Probably the best commercial from last year's football season.

My Better is Better (Nike)

Cool commercial for Nike Sparq Training (great equipment). Lots of great athletes in this one.
This is the same commercial, but the 60 second version so it's a bit better.
Here is a second one that is just all trash talk.
Kind of reminds me of UnderArmour, so...

We Must Protect This House (Under Armour)

I think this was the first in a series of now memorable Under Armour commercials, the 'protect this house' series has been really cool and this one started it off.  So you know that reminds me of some good ol' Johns Hopkins Lacrosse guys:
Kyle Harrison - K18 commercial (STX)
Paul Rabil - Cold Abuse Simulator (Under Armour / Dick's)

Terry Tate: Office Linebacker (Reebok)

"You can take the fish out the sea, but you can NEVER take the linebacker out of me!"
I love Terry Tate and there are at least 4 other videos like this, each one is great.

Take It To The Next Level (Nike)

It may be soccer, but its still a cool commercial with lots of famous guys. This is the long version.

TigerWoods - Bouncing the Ball (Nike)

This was a great commercial, that's all there is to say about it.

Charles Barkley and Dwayne Wade - Fave 5 (T-Mobile)

I've stated many times before that I'd love just a Charles Barkley channel on TV and you can see why.

Bo Knows! (Nike)

"Bo, you don't know diddly!"

That's all I got for now, add some in the comments, e-mail me, tell me on twitter, whatever it takes.  I want to get a pretty good list going.  Anyone who knows me knows my love for YouTube, but you can send me links from other sites.  Send me any good commercials or whatever, doesn't have to be just sports.  The only rule I'll say is that part of it has to have appeared on TV.

Back in Action

Going to start posting again on here, we'll see how that goes.
Let me know what you like. There are plenty of blogs and websites out there to give you the news so I won't do that.  Also there is twitter for sending you interesting links, so I won't just post other peoples articles, follow me on twitter if you want that.  I definitely won't be just sports.  I won't kill you with too many posts.  I am still obviously a huge Philly fan so I will definitely have some opinions on Philly sports, but there are other websites much better at that than me.  Let's see where this goes.
http://twitter.com/experienceTed

Going FJM on Mr. Ian O'Connor of foxsports.com

McNabb shows what toughness, resolve can do

I first saw this article thanks to the 700level.com, where Enrico so wonderfully points out some of the major flaws. To quote Enrico, "!@#$#%$#!@#&*@#!$ WHAT?!? @!#@#$@##$!@@#@." As an ode to Fire Joe Morgan and now Big Daddy Drew over at KSK I thought I take a lot at some specific pieces of this article. Here you go:

He has spilled the blood, sweat and tears of a thousand Big 5 players at the Palestra.
Don't forget puke, and also not sure when I've seen him cry (McNabb is not T.O.). Why compare McNabb, the most important player on probably the city's most followed team, to college players. Sure we love the Big 5, but that's college basketball, not the NFL, expectations are a little different. Plus, you are from New York, I doubt you've ever seen a great Big 5 game.


Philadelphia is famous for booing Santa?
Philadelphia is famous for many inappropriate actions. Booing Santa should not be one of them. Also, you missed the better part about Philadelphians throwing snowballs at Santa. Everyone from Philly knows the story and its not that outlandish. Even the guy dressed as Santa that day I think has said he probably would have booed and thrown snowballs at Santa at that game.

I told him that grouping Philadelphia with Boston and New York was like throwing Genghis Khan into the same cell with two guys busted for jaywalking.
In comparison, Philadelphians are like warlords for booing their players when they perform poorly and New York sportswriters are like jaywalkers when they totally crucify every single action of the New York sports figures (can we say A-Rod's personal life).

McNabb still has a chance to go down as the enduring Philly story of 2008.
Now there isn't even an ounce of truth to that statement. For one thing, 2008 is over, he could be the biggest story of 2009. Did you even watch the World Series? Sure the national ratings were horrible, but not here in Philly. Perhaps you caught any of the coverage of the parade? Yea, I'm pretty sure 10 years down the road 2008 will be the year of the Phillies.

In fact, Philadelphia fields the only teams in sports that try to score early to take their own fans out of the game.
I'm not sure I actually understand this sentence. Philadelphia teams don't try to score first because scoring points is how you win games?

But nobody's had more line drives smacked at him than McNabb, whose 10 years in Philly are the equivalent of 20 anywhere else.
So McNabb has been here the longest. Yes, good point that you have already made multiple times. Are you implying that McNabb plays like hes over 40 years old or something with the 20 comment because as he has proved this season, McNabb is not an old man.

This would be the same Landry who in 15 NFL seasons threw for 13,000 fewer yards and nearly 100 fewer touchdowns than McNabb would manage in his first 10.
So McNabb turned into a great QB, maybe some people didn't see that happening. If it proves one thing it sure proves that Greg Landry sucked as a player when he was in the NFL because that is totally how you should judge someone's coaching ability.

He threw for 357 yards and three touchdowns in a Super Bowl loss to the Brady/Belichick Patriots and yet is best remembered for the interceptions, the sacks and the alleged dehydration/exhaustion/nausea that did or didn't get the best of him down the stretch.
You know why its crazy that he is remembered for that? Because that is HOW THE GAME ENDED! Really, all I care about during the Super Bowl is stats, not who WINS the game!

This year, McNabb was McNailed nationally for revealing he didn't know regular-season games could end in a tie.
Holy crap, I hope you get an award for that one.

Only something funny happened on the way to divorce court. McNabb beat the Cardinals, Giants and Browns, ripped the Cowboys in a win-or-else game and threw for 300 yards in a wild-card playoff victory over the Vikings.
It is amazing that he is playing wonderfully and so Philadelphians are loving him. Why don't they hate him like Philadelphians are supposed to?

Moral of the story, Mr O'Connor or is it Dr O'Connor, is that you are a poor story teller. You picked what could have been a great story (the longest tenured Philadelphia athlete), but instead you ruined it.