(This is not a Big Board question, because the contours are too vague to penalize people for being “off.”)
By the by, it appears that Alex Anthopoulos spoke to reporters yesterday. While I haven’t seen a broad summary of his remarks, we have teeny-tiny snippets like:
If you take it at face value, this suggests two-plus serious-money additions at key positions, and then whatever “a lot of relievers” means, which could range from a bunch of cheap deals and speculative adds, to this Front Office’s erstwhile-or-maybe-not strategy of dumping a big chunk of payroll into the bullpen for whatever reason.
Let’s say that a “serious money” addition is either a free agent signing or a trade taking on salary that adds at least $9 million to the team’s luxury tax payroll calculation. How many do you expect?