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rundown of 2008 salaries

arod 27.5
posada 13
rivera 15
mussina 11
jeter 20
giambi 21
damon 13
abreu 16
matsui 13
pavano 11
igawa 4
farns 5.5
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total 170 (geezuz-h) (edit: for 2009, pavano, mussina, abreu, farnsworth are off the books -- 43.5M. for 2010, giambi, matsui, damon -- 47M. for 2011, jeter's 21M is gone. that's $111M in salaries. only abreu and jeter will probably be resigned, hopefully at discounts. and of course johan can be added at 17.5M+.)

the rest being negligible (0.5 and less). that's 10 players, plus pavano and igawa, only one of whom has a shot at the 25-man roster.

cano, wang, hughes, chamberlain, kennedy, cabrera, betemit are locks to round out the roster at this point. that's 7 more players.

so say that's 18 players. between wang, hughes, chamberlain, kennedy, mussina and igawa, that's 5 starters and one BP/AAA guy.

possible minor leaguers : duncan, karstens, clippard, desalvo, bruney, brower, rasner, britton, veras, ramirez, ohlendorf

possible FAs : pettite, molina.