{"id":10836,"date":"2017-10-13T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=10836"},"modified":"2017-10-13T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:06:35","slug":"marlins-set-to-become-punching-bag-payroll-to-be-cut-to-90-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2017\/10\/13\/marlins-set-to-become-punching-bag-payroll-to-be-cut-to-90-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins set to become punching bag, payroll to be cut to $90 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the Miami Marlins are going to get their payroll down to $90 million as the Miami Herald<\/a> suggests then there is going to be massive trades.<\/p>\n

Operating on a $115 million budgets the Marlins were largely an afterthought in the NL East this season and raises on existing contracts have their payroll closer to $140 million than the $90 million number.<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton – who hit 59 homeruns – and others have been said to be available in trades. Owed $25 million next season and $295 million on the remainder of his contract it’s looking like the MLB homerun leader will be wearing a different uniform next year. Others who could be moved are Stanton’s outfield buddies in Marcell Ozuna and Christian Yelich in addition to infielders Dee Gordon and Martin Prado.<\/p>\n

One player the Marlins will likely be paying is pitcher Edinson Volquez who underwent Tommy John surgery in August. He is owed $13 million for 2018. In addition Wei-Yui Chen can exercise a player option that will guarantee him $60 million over the next three years.<\/p>\n

Trading Stanton, Prado and Dee Gordon would seemingly get the team under the $90 million figure but it does not account for any money that the Marlins will have to pay in order to foster a trade. It also fails to account for the cost of a replacement player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the Miami Marlins are going to get their payroll down to $90 million as the Miami Herald suggests then there is going to be massive trades. Operating on a $115 million budgets the Marlins were largely an afterthought in the NL East this season and raises on existing contracts have their payroll closer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,207,24,501],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-10836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","10":"tag-miami-marlins","11":"tag-mlb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10838,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10836\/revisions\/10838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10836"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}