That's what's happening according to Yahoo!  Top Jays catching prospect involved.

Our odds of not finishing last are dwindling.

Maybe the Yankees will join us for a race to the bottom of the AL east.

 

If Toronto remains healthy, then I see them to win at least a wild card berth.  Watch out for the Blue Jays in 2013. 

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In response to Seeger88's comment:

I read somewhere that after the trade with the Marlins, it was at around $120 million. 

Dickey is owed only $5 million in 2013.  I am not sure if Toronto will try and extend Dickey.  I doubt they would trade their top catching prospect for just one year rental of Dickey. 

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An old bum that happened to win the 2012 NL CY Award; and a pitcher who a bunch of hitters (including Jeter) dread to face, facing a knuckleball that has a velocity in the mid 80s yet breaks like nobody's business. Since you're not one of them, I'll take their word for it.

Your bias against knuckleballers has IMO clouded your judgement. Perhaps Wilhelm stunk too. 

In response to soxnewmex's comment:

I find this doubtful.

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In response to Seeger88's comment:

Baseball Ref has them estimated at $112.7M before this move- identical to ours.

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Updated:

Players signed for 2013 (and beyond): We have only10.

Lackey       $15.25M  ($15.25M in 2014 & min wage in 2015)    Avg: ~$14M

Papi           $14M  (plus $1M bonus & $11M for 2014)               Avg: $13M

Napoli       $13M (plus $13M for 2014 and 2015)                        Avg: $13M

Dempster $13.25M (plus $13.25M for 2014)                             Avg. $13.3M

Lester       $11.625M ($13M in014 cl option w/ $0.25M b/0)  Avg: $6M

Pedr $10M ($10.25M in 2014, $11M cl opt in 15 w/ $0.5M B/O)Avg: $6.75M

Buch $5.5M ($7.7M in '14, $12M-'15, $13M/$13.5M opt '16 & '17) Avg: ~$7M

Gomes       $5M    ($5M in '14)                             Avg: $5M

Uehara      $4.25M

D. Ross      $3.1M  ($3.1M in '14)                         Avg: $3.1M

Iglesias     $2.063M (Then arb)                           Avg: ~$2M

~$98M in signed players.  (Luxury Tax -  Average Anual Value: ~$87M)

Players with arbitration years remaining:
 Player      (2012 salary) Arb year(s) Est. 2013 salary
Ellsbury        ($8.05M)    3 of 3    $8-10M
A Bailey          ($3.9M)    2 of 3    $3-5M
Saltalmacchia ($2.5M)    3 of 3   $5-7M
C Breslow   ($1.795M)    3 of 3   $3-4M
D. Bard         ($1.613M)   2 of  4  $1.7-2M
A Aceves          ($1.2M)    2 of 3   $2-4M
A Miller            ($1.04M)  2 of 3   $2-3M
F Morales         ($850K)   2 of 3   $2-3M

Total Est: $33M to $43M  Avg: ~$38M

That puts our budget at about $136M, not counting pre-arb contracts and any players we will acquire.

The Luxury Tax number is now about : ~$124M

 

Pre-arb players (on 40 man roster):
Middlebrooks
de la Rosa
Doubront
Lavarnway
Ciriaco
Tazawa
Mortensen

Gomez

Sands
Nava
Kalish
Beato
Melancon
Webster

C Carpenter

A Wilson

S Wright

D Butler

C Vazquez

A Hassan

After adding these "small" contract totals, My guess is we are not at:

~$147M

~$136M AAV

 

(Remember there is an amount that must be paid to to the player pension fund that counts against the Luxury tax threshhold, so we may have about $35-40M or so to spend this year and still be below the line.

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