January 29, 2009
Off the Cuff
Baseball Time in Arlington comments on Joaquin Benoit's surgery:
Benoit, coincidentally, is set to earn a base salary of $3.5 million in 2009. Toss in Frank Catalanotto's seemingly immovable $4 million salary (coupled with a $2 million buyout for 2010), and that's suddenly more than 10 percent of the projected 2009 payroll sunk into either damaged or superfluous goods.
With the injury to Hurley, I'm betting Texas is being pushed more toward signing Ben Sheets.
Posted by David Pinto at
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Benoit and Catalanotto both earn little more than the major league average salary. That money isn't going to sink the ship. Most every team sees ten percent (or more) of its payroll on the DL at one time or another.
Sheets would earn considerably more than the major league average. The Rangers may finally pull the trigger on a deal, but it obviously has the potential to explode, as the faux-Minaya commented.
