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.
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.
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...
"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.
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
