i am gonna give moorad the benefit of the doubt and believe it when he says 40-ish

Reality. In the past, Kevin Towers would quote payroll from an inflated standpoint, conveniently forgetting contracts that they had dropped during the year.

So, I imagine we will start out at a $40 million payroll, but part way through the year we will trade a few players and drop some payroll. Though, I imagine that Jed will still talk about us being “competitive” because we have a $40 million payroll….. just like in years past. depressing.

I still can’t believe that baseball approved the sale of our team to an ownership group that didn’t have enough money to buy the club straight out, let alone have enough money to operate a competitive club.

And thats before arbitration but I don’t see how they would get to 40 mil. I think they will end up around 30 mil, but will this be the lowest payroll ever for the Padres or their lowest ranking ever?

I use cots’ contracts, but if someone has a better list i definitely like to see it.

>http://mlbcontracts.blogspot.com/2005/01/san-diego-padres.html

Why should I care what bob nightengale thinks will happen? What possibly qualifies him to predict what the padres will do any better than joe blogger? I never understand the “so-in-so, who is not connected with the teams expects x to happen”. It just makes me think, go away you toolshed come back when you have real news.