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I don't think they have enough left over in their farm system to pick up Manny, Soriano, and still have enough left over to aquire pitching. Ichiro is plain unavailable. All I can say is that this better work for the Mets because it will take years to recover from these contracts and the damage they are doing to their current farm system if they fail.
Delgado - 13.5, 14.5, 16M 06-08 16M option with 4M buyout in 09
Beltran - 12M 06; 18.5 (8.5 deferred) from 07 - 11
Pedro - 14M in 06, 07 (4M/yr deferred), 11.5M (2M deferred) in 08
Wagner - 10.5M 06 - 09
Soriano - 7.5M in 05, arb eligible next two? years will probably get 8.5-9 in 2006, 10M in 2007
Manny - 19, 18, 20 from 06-08 (4m/yr deferred)
That's 50M to 4 players. If they get Soriano and Manny that is 76.5.
I heard they are holding on to Heilman and Milledge in hopes of snagging Manny. Wow.
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