RED SOX News

The sox are on a verge of obtaining Coco Crisp from Cleveland for Marte, Mota, and Shoppach. More on this when the deal actaully is finalized, but at early look i like this deal very much. i did want to look at one thing though, salary, this is one of the the better parts of this deal, the sox will save a lot of money over the next four years. Here is a rough estimate of what the sox salary will look like this year.



PLAYER
SALARY (US$)
1. Manny Ramirez
$ 19,806,820.00
2. Curt Schilling
$ 14,500,000.00
3. Jason Varitek
$ 8,000,000.00
4. Trot Nixon
$ 7,500,000.00
5. Keith Foulke
$ 7,500,000.00
6. Mike Lowell
$ 7,500,000.00
7. Matt Clement
$ 6,500,000.00
8. David Ortiz
$ 5,250,000.00
9. Tim Wakefield
$ 4,670,000.00
10. David Wells
$ 4,075,000.00
11. Mike Timlin
$ 2,750,000.00
12. Mark Loretta
$ 2,750,000.00
13. Julian Tavarez
$ 2,600,000.00
14. Guillermo Mota
$ 2,600,000.00
15. Josh Beckett
$ 2,400,000.00
16. J.T. Snow
$ 2,000,000.00
17. Bronson Arroyo
$ 1,850,000.00
18. Alex Cora
$ 1,300,000.00
19. Tony Graffanino
$ 1,100,000.00
20. John Flaherty
$ 800,000.00
21. Rudy Seanez
$ 550,000.00
22. Kevin Youkilis
$ 323,125.00
23. Adam Stern
$ 316,000.00
Total Team Salary:
$ 121,311,945.00
Crisp
$ 364,900.00
- mota
$ 2,600,000.00
$ 119,076,845.00
does not include arroyo extension.

so it does look like the sox will on this, also you should take into a count the amount of money saved instead of signing damon, we did however pay somthing like 11 million for edgar to just get rid of him.

ok like i said more when the deal is finalized, ill have some numbers and the like.

TOT