Looking at contracts for 2009, there's only one (seemingly easy) decision to make on club options: Renteria's $3MM buyout. Other than that, there are a few players under club control that will need to be resigned - most notable: Galarraga, Zumaya, Rodney, Miner; and a few free agents that should resign with Tigers: Seay, Santiago, Thames.
Assuming Tigers buyout Renteria and resign notables plus a few extras, looks like Tigers will have a payroll in the $115 - 118MM range.
Compared with '08 roster payroll of $138MM, that leaves $20MM to spend assuming budget set at last year's budget. We should be able to sign Sheets for $12MM in first year (5 more escalating years) and Orlando Cabrera for $8MM? Then, does Illitch increase the budget to say, $150MM? If so, we could afford Krod. I like this team already.
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