There's probably a couple non-tender candidates in the mix -- Castillo, Tonkin, maybe Kirilloff.
Also, Alcala already has a contract for $1.5M. If he's double-counted and already in your $93M, those four knock $6M off your total.
There's another option that I haven't seen anyone mention. There's a one-year spike in Correa's salary. That it comes in year 3 of a six-year deal suggests that they had some creative conversation to create an uneven pay flow*. He also wants to win. How about going Bobby Bonilla on him and working with Mr. Boras to create a mutually beneficial deferred compensation package that gives Correa the same value in today's dollars in exchange for taking just $25M of that money this year? Or something of that nature.
*Or maybe Correa's Adjustable Rate Mortgage has a balloon payment coming due in 2025? Okay, probably not.
Lewis, Castro and Topa should be labeled as "arbitration." Miranda and Varland should be listed as "team control." The dollar figures are probably about right for each of them, however.
Mediocre is that Cleveland lost five times to the White Sox. That's more than the Twins, Royals and Detroit combined. Do they even deserve to be in the playoffs, let alone get a first-round bye, if they lose that many to the worst team in modern baseball history? 😀
Did any of y'all see coverage from the Oakland game on Wednesday? MLB Network had the game and the locals did some nice stuff in the pregame. MLB Network had some nice segments on the A's time in Oakland.
I was a little disappointed that they didn't do more with the '72-'74 dynasty and did more with the Bash Brothers instead.
For the record, the Baltimore line score of 23111 is the ZIP code for Mechanicsville, Va., about 150 miles from Camden Yards.*
*Also for the record, the Twins' 00000 is non-existent as a ZIP code, which seems fitting as a descriptor for their offense.,
Also didn't add that part, but I think the "aren't ready for the rigors of the show for an entire season" is also reason why they will prefer starting Matthews and Festa in St. Paul.