Marlins, Javier Vazquez Agree To One Year Deal

[Namaste]

Love this. We were talking about this last night playing cards. YES

[Miamarlin21]

Did you win?

[Namaste]

I lost $15

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

joecapMARLINS: Javier Vazquez figures to slot into 2 or 3 spot in #Marlins rotation. Josh Johnson is No. 1. Ricky Nolasco, Chris Volstad, Anibal Sanchez

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[Fish and Chips]

Ken_Rosenthal Source: J. Vazquez deal with #Marlins will be in $6 million to $7 million range. #MLB

nice deal

[wanks1212]

Oh wow. Vazquez for one year at 6-7 million per? That's fantastic.

[Fish and Chips]

I think we can afford Javy and Nunez now. Great news.

[Party]

Best offseason in a very long time. <3

[Miamarlin21]

I really wish we could acquire/sign a center fielder and have Cogs at second and Infante at third. It'd work out perfectly with Matty D almost ready.

[Bobbob1313]

Man, being able to keep Nunez, Nolasco, and add Javy is fantastic.

I am love this.

[The Hanram]

Nice deal!

We can say what we want about the FO but I think the past two offseasons have been pretty solid (obviously the best thing about last offseason was JJ and this offseason...everything).

[jOOj]

Good deal, he'll be fine back in the NL.

[lou]

I think we can afford Javy and Nunez now. Great news.

Well they said payroll is going to be $53-55


C John Buck $6,000,000
1B Gaby Sanchez $420,000
2B Omar Infante $3,250,000
3B Bonifacio/Dominguez $420,000
SS Hanley Ramirez $11,000,000
LF Logan Morrison $410,000
CF Chris Coghlan $600,000
RF Mike Stanton $420,000
B Bonifacio/Dominguez $410,000
B John Baker $430,000
B Wes Helms $1,000,000
B Veteran Lefty $410,000
B Veteran Outfielder $410,000

SP Josh Johnson $7,750,000
SP Javy Vazquez $7,000,000
SP Ricky Nolasco $6,000,000
SP Anibal Sanchez $2,250,000
SP Chris Volstad $430,000
RP Leo Nunez $4,000,000
RP Clay Hensley $1,750,000
RP Edward Mujica $1,000,000
RP Brian Sanches $430,000
RP Ryan Webb $430,000
RP Mike Dunn $410,000
RP Veteran Lefty $410,000

$57,040,000

I'm not going to be that far off on the arbitration cases - Nolasco, Anibal, Nunez, Mujica, and Hensley. Those are the only variations besides the negligible club controlled dollars

Note: I am including Buck's $1.5 million signing bonus and around $750,000 of Infante incentive money. Or if Javy makes a few hundred thousand less. If those sums do not "count" towards team payroll, yes. Yes the Marlins keep Javy and Nunez for sub $55 million. If not, I don't see it.
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Regardless, if this is the team, in real world hypotheticals, I'd still want to remove Nunez $4 million, have Sanabia/other be in the pen, and spend $1 million each on a bench player and a left handed reliever. Are we really going to have Mike Dunn as our only left hander? That team seems more stable to me.

If we want to go all Upton on this, removing Nolasco and Nunez, and adding Upton, creates another $4 million to spend which could be used on a lower end 5th starter and same situation applies with the last bullpen (Sanabia), and bench (Cousins, Petersen).
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Vazquez agreement is 1 yr, $7M. Full no-trade clause. Team cannot offer salary arbitration. Physical this week. #Marlins #MLB

Full no trade? Who the fuck is running this team? Who kidnapped them?

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

Ken_Rosenthal: Sources: Vazquez agreement is 1 yr, $7M. Full no-trade clause. Team cannot offer salary arbitration. Physical this week. #Marlins #MLB

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Sounds like he's gone at the end of the year if we can't offer him arbitration.

[Swifty]

Why is he gone at the end of the year? You no longer need to offer arbitration to retain negotiation rights.