: In theory, you can get through a season with a payroll of, say, $30-$40M if you were that committed to cheapness, though of course they’re not going to actually go that low. Right now I’ve got them at $95M, already significantly lower than $136M for this year. That’s before picking up Topa’s option (or just going to arb with him) and non-tendering likely candidates like Tonkin, Cabrera, and Misiewicz. They very well could get under $110M even if Buxton insists on staying by moving López, Jeffers, and Ryan. But I’m not sure I expect that much of a blow-up since they got a lot of MLB-ready guys in the trades.