If the fish can't find a sucker for Uggla, about 1/5 the payroll just evaporated.
It is sounding like the Fish want to keep Nolasco & JJ, but with Uggla things are screwy.
Helms: $1.0
Hanley: $7.0
Paulino: $1.1
Miller: $2.7
Total under contract: $11.8
Arby (at lowest estimates)
Uggla: $7
JJ: $4.5
Nolasco: $3.0
Cantu: $5.5
Ross: $4.5
Nunez: $2.0
Pinto: $1.5
Total Arby: $28.0
Other 14 at league minumum of $400K: $5.6
Grand Total: $45.4
Loria budget for 2010: $36.0
Need to cut/trade: $9.4
Pinto & Uggla would eliminate about $8.5, but 2 new league minimums would add $800K, netting $7.7 and leaving a net of $1.7 to go. Adding a league minimum of $400K, that means another player with at least $2.1 in 2010 salary is slated to be traded.
The Marlins are short a LH bat off the bench, unless it is Bonifacio, and G*d forbid anybody, even a pitcher, it so bad Bonifacio hits for him. If Pinto is traded, Myers is the sole lefty in the pen, though Miller may end up there and Tankersley could be called up.