Ok……so this is my plan to make the New York Mutts a far better team than the collection of guys they managed to put on the field this year. I based the current commitments and arbitration raises per mlbtraderumors.

Please bear with me as my plan depends on a few trades that are somewhat realistic give or take a few tweaks!

First on my list…non tender Tim Redding, he had a good finished but it wasn’t enough.   -$2.25MM

Then swing a deal with cincy seeing as they would like to cut payroll. This is what I had in mind: trade oliver perez (ugh!) and Daniel Murphy(nothing against murph) for Bronson Arroyo and Brandon Phillips. I know it seems out there but the reds will drop contracts that are large in the pov but ones that we can take on. Maybe even take on some of ollie’s contract if need be but I’ll pretend we won’t.  +$5.35MM

Sign either Molina or Barajas to a 1 or 2 year deal at 2-4MM per. Call it 4MM just for giggles. +$4MM

Sign matt holliiday  to play LF for 5 or 6 year deal at 15-16MM per. +$16MM

Sign one of wolf garland or marquis to a 2 year deal at most 8MM per(probably for wolf-the others will be cheaper-as long as we get someone to toss at least 200 innings). +8MM

Sign Calero for 2 years at 3MM per. +3MM

Here’s where it gets dicey…..we can either resign Delgado very very cheap(we have evans to back him up if need be) or we can trade some of our top prospects to get Adrian Gonzalez, or we can get creative and just stick with Delgado and trade those guys for the Doc! Either way it’ll probably cost around 5MM to cover first base. But we’ll stick with Delgado at first for now! +5MM

So here’s what the roster projects to be:

C- Molina-$4MM

1B- Delgado-$5MM

2B-Philips-$6.75MM

3B-Wright-$10MM

SS-Reyes-$9MM

LF-Holliday-$16MM

CF-Beltran-$18MM

RF-Francoeur-$3.375MM

Total-$72.125MM

SP-Santana-$21MM

SP-Wolf-$8MM

SP-Arroyo-$11MM

SP-Pelfrey-$1.3MM

SP-Maine-2.6MM

Total-$43.9MM

CP-Rodriguez-$11.5MM

SU-Calero-$3MM

RP-Feliciano-$1.6MM

RP-Green-$471K

RP-Misch-$400K

RP-Parnell-$400K

RP-Stokes-$410K

Total-$17.8MM

IF-Castillo-$6MM

IF-Evans-$400K

OF-Pagan-$575K

OF-Sullivan-$600K

IF-Hernandez-$400K

Total-$7.975MM

Total payroll-$141.8MM-and thats assuming they get stuck with luis on the bench!!!

And of course a few guys have arbitration raises coming so add about 5-6 million