Taking a quick shot at this:
Offer Didi the QO, hope he turns it down, but if he takes it, trade him.
Offer D’Arnaud 3/24 as time-splitting catcher.
Trade Gleyber for Lindor (maybe this needs to be balanced one way or the other but they were right next to each other on the Trade Value charts last summer and if anything, Gleyber should be ahead now).
Sign Cole for 8/248.
Trade Happ.
Let Chapman go if he opts out.
Let Betances go assuming he has a solid market, which he should.
Resign Gardner to 1/10.
Let Romine and Maybin go.
Extend DJ with 2/30 more, making his total remaining deal 3/42.
Sanchez/D’Arnaud (6/8)
Voit
LeMahieu (14)
Lindor (16.7)
Urshela (2)
Tauchman/Gardner (/10)
Hicks (10)
Judge (6)
Stanton (22)
Cole (31)
Paxton (13)
Tanaka (22)
Severino (10)
German
Loaisiga
Heller
Green (1.4)
Kahnle (3)
Ottavino (9)
Britton (13)
Add in Ellsbury at 22, and I have it around $219M. Add the $17M for player benefits/40 man and it's probably still under $248M, with $57M to Paxton, Tanaka and Ellsbury coming off after 2020, hopefully replacing the pitchers internally (Garcia/Schmidt/Medina/Gil etc.).
Also, if they could trade Stanton (Dodgers?), Andujar and Ford and Frazier are all very cheap DH candidates already on the 40 man.
Offer Didi the QO, hope he turns it down, but if he takes it, trade him.
Offer D’Arnaud 3/24 as time-splitting catcher.
Trade Gleyber for Lindor (maybe this needs to be balanced one way or the other but they were right next to each other on the Trade Value charts last summer and if anything, Gleyber should be ahead now).
Sign Cole for 8/248.
Trade Happ.
Let Chapman go if he opts out.
Let Betances go assuming he has a solid market, which he should.
Resign Gardner to 1/10.
Let Romine and Maybin go.
Extend DJ with 2/30 more, making his total remaining deal 3/42.
Sanchez/D’Arnaud (6/8)
Voit
LeMahieu (14)
Lindor (16.7)
Urshela (2)
Tauchman/Gardner (/10)
Hicks (10)
Judge (6)
Stanton (22)
Cole (31)
Paxton (13)
Tanaka (22)
Severino (10)
German
Loaisiga
Heller
Green (1.4)
Kahnle (3)
Ottavino (9)
Britton (13)
Add in Ellsbury at 22, and I have it around $219M. Add the $17M for player benefits/40 man and it's probably still under $248M, with $57M to Paxton, Tanaka and Ellsbury coming off after 2020, hopefully replacing the pitchers internally (Garcia/Schmidt/Medina/Gil etc.).
Also, if they could trade Stanton (Dodgers?), Andujar and Ford and Frazier are all very cheap DH candidates already on the 40 man.