The number of players who make more than the astros

I've been a supporter of the total rebuild from day one, actually from well before we started it.

I will say though, although i'm ok with the return we got for Bud, I was hoping that the veteran dump for prospects was over after last year. We have acquired a tremendous amount of minor league talent which is awesome . . .but it's only awesome if it all stops at some point, and we start to think about the big league team

I don't know when the "right" time is, but I do think we will be in the running for the top pick again in 2015, I hope not, but don't see significant reason to not think we will be

 

Cool OP.

 

I don't see anyone that we should be spending money on instead, but still that is pretty embarassing lol. I would be pissed if I was an owner of one of the other 29 teams and we get revenue sharing.

 

Props to Luhnow for having the balls to do a full strip and rebuild. I think Castro and Lyles are keepers, not sure on Altuve despite the extension, going forward and hopefully this is the last of the trades unless there's something smart out there like a Maxwell type trade. I'm pretty damn excited about this team. I can't wait to see that talent start to bubble up.

 

Luhnow is going to wait till he has only his guys. He doesn't want to have to thank Ed Wade in our World Series trophy presentation.

 

Has anyone else made the connection between Morey and Luhnow and how they seem eerily similar in their thought processes?

 

Crane has to pay his investors back, they made no secret of this when they bought the team. If he's to be believed, they will ramp up the payroll incrementally over the next several years.

 

Springer
Castro
Singleton
Cosart
Folty
DDJ
Santana
Villar

Just off the top of my head that's potentially 1/3 of a roster right there, Wade for all his faults didn't leave the place worse than he found it.

 

I'll tell ya one thing. If Luhnow was GM at the time, Springer would have never been an Astro. And I thank Ed Wade for that.

 

No, he didn't. Helps that he knew the Phillies system just as well as ours, and he got the players he wanted for Oswalt/Pence. Can't say the same about Bourne. Phillies have very little in their system right now.

 

I count 66 players with a greater than or equal to salary than the entire Astros roster (if you assume the total payroll is right at $13m)


Alex Rodriguez $29,000,000
Cliff Lee $25,000,000 33
Johan Santana $24,644,708 33
Vernon Wells $24,642,857 34
CC Sabathia $24,285,714 31
Mark Teixeira $23,125,000 32
Prince Fielder $23,000,000 28
Joe Mauer $23,000,000 29
Tim Lincecum $22,250,000 28
Adrian Gonzalez $21,857,143 30
Miguel Cabrera $21,000,000 29
Zack Greinke $21,000,000 28
Carl Crawford $20,857,143 30
Matt Cain $20,833,333 27
Felix Hernandez $20,557,143 26
Cole Hamels $20,500,000 28
Matt Kemp $20,250,000 27
Justin Verlander $20,100,000 29
Roy Halladay $20,000,000 35
Ryan Howard $20,000,000 32
Barry Zito $20,000,000 34
Alfonso Soriano $19,000,000 36
Joey Votto $18,910,655 28
Michael Young $18,374,975 35
Josh Hamilton $17,400,000 31
Josh Beckett $17,000,000 32
Derek Jeter $16,729,365 38
Jayson Werth $16,571,429 33
A.J. Burnett $16,500,000 35
Bronson Arroyo $16,445,535 35
Matt Holliday $16,272,110 32
Jered Weaver $16,200,000 29
Jake Peavy $16,157,271 31
Albert Pujols $16,000,000 32
Adrian Beltre $16,000,000 33
John Lackey $15,950,000 34
John Danks $15,750,000 27
Hanley Ramirez $15,500,000 28
Nick Markakis $15,350,000 28
Chase Utley $15,285,714 33
Adam Dunn $15,000,000 32
Justin Morneau $15,000,000 31
Robinson Cano $15,000,000 29
Curtis Granderson $15,000,000 31
Hiroki Kuroda $15,000,000 37
David Ortiz $14,500,000 36
Yadier Molina $14,200,000 29
Ryan Zimmerman $14,100,000 27
Jose Bautista $14,000,000 31
Hunter Pence $13,800,000 29
Josh Johnson $13,750,000 28
Wandy Rodriguez $13,500,000 33
Andre Ethier $13,500,000 30
Ryan Dempster $13,250,000 35
Ted Lilly $13,166,667 36
Dan Uggla $13,146,942 32
B.J. Upton $13,050,000 27
Alex Rios $13,000,000 31
Victor Martinez $13,000,000 34
Ervin Santana $13,000,000 29
Shane Victorino $13,000,000 31
Ian Kinsler $13,000,000 30
Edwin Jackson $13,000,000 28
Carlos Beltran $13,000,000 35
Jonathan Papelbon $13,000,000 31
Dan Haren $13,000,000 31

 

^^

Thanks, leroy, for doing the work the OP was too lazy to do.

 

More importantly, here is a list of Tyler Perry movies that grossed more money than the Astros payroll is worth:

 

According to Rotten Tomatoes....

The Wolverine, The Conjuring, Despicable Me 2, and Turbo all grossed more than the Astros payroll last weekend.

 

The brilliance of this is that he's probably accelerated that payback faster than he ever expected....and at the same time, has completely rebuilt an organization's farm system.

 

Spare time, Leroy... I have lots of it today so far. Does that post mean that we should rename MMP the House of Payne until we have a payroll higher than his movies???

 

No. I believe the actual translation of the picture is "Oy vey."

 

How will you feel if Springer flops?

What if he would have taken Jose Fernandez?