the payroll stays the same.
So many contracts will be coming off the books.
Graves 6.5M
Dunn 4.6M (Probably will get traded)
Ortiz 4.3-4.4M
Randa 3.5M
Larue 3M (This one is a maybe, 50/50 chance he'll stay/go)
DJ 2.87M
So that comes to a total of about 22M to 25M.
Additionally, I believe there are only 4 Reds eligible for arbitration... WMP, Kearns, Harang, and Freel. (5 if you count Larue)
I would expect WMP to get about 2M, Kearns 1.5M, Harang 2M, and Freel 1.3M. So that comes out to about 7M.
So that would leave us with 15M-18M to spend. It could become more if we could get rid of Casey and/or Milton.