Sorry, bit excited. They have us taking James Simmons (RHP, UC Riverside) at 23, possibly Joe Savery from Rice.

Simmons is a meh pick to me. Not a bad pick, but there are a lot of low 90s command RHP in our system. We’d have to take some chances with later picks.

They suggest Wieters could fall all the way to St. Louis at 18.

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/

5: Guys who get called up are fractional money, pro-rated per the major league minimum of 3800,000. 486 games played by callups = slightly less than 1 Geoff Blum. It’s actually days on the roster rather than games, I think, but close enough. You’d also have to subtract payroll for players whose stay on the DL was covered by insurance. Teams almost never release that information.

You don’t have to pay performance bonuses unless the player hits them. It would be disingenuous for the Padres to claim a payroll of 62 million now, before David Wells starts earning his bonuses. One dropped wine glass and he doesn’t earn an extra dime, let alone th 4 million he might make. All the other Padre bonuses together are in the neighborhood of 1 million.

For those scoring at home, our current 58 million payroll is 4 million more than the 2000 payroll in terrible old Qualcomm. It’s 11.7 million less than the 2006 payroll. It doesn’t bother me to spend less, but you could fit a Ted Lilly in the gap between last year and this. He’d be our second-best starter.

http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2005/01/san-diego-padres.html

has them at 58+ million.

If you want fully accurate numbers regarding team payroll, you would have to account for guys who get called up and performance incentives. I am not sure there is any site that does that, but if anyone can find one, that would be great.

2) Any chance of Headley being moved up to AAA soon?

3) It seems that some of our young pitchers are doing very well in AAA : apart from Germano, Brown and Ring have very low ERAs. In AA, Sean Thompson is doing cery well, with an ERA of about 2.50. I love good pitching!