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<blockquote data-quote="FollowTisdale" data-source="post: 1417990" data-attributes="member: 619279"><p>MLB trade rumors has their arb estimates at $40MM. Combined with the salaries on the books, league minimum guys, and the other stuff that counts towards the luxury tax, the Cubs are going to be around $188MM pre-free agency.</p><p></p><p>Hamels option puts them over the luxury tax if they take that. I don't think there's any way they're going to stay under this year, but getting one of Harper & Machado practically locks them into being over the luxury tax line for as long as their contracts run (assuming they get in the $30-$40MM/yr. range). So while it wouldn't be the most surprising thing in the world if they went over in 2019 & 2020, the only team that's locked themselves above the Luxury tax line for 3+ years in the recent past has been the Red Sox, so who knows if all of the big budget teams are even capable of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FollowTisdale, post: 1417990, member: 619279"] MLB trade rumors has their arb estimates at $40MM. Combined with the salaries on the books, league minimum guys, and the other stuff that counts towards the luxury tax, the Cubs are going to be around $188MM pre-free agency. Hamels option puts them over the luxury tax if they take that. I don't think there's any way they're going to stay under this year, but getting one of Harper & Machado practically locks them into being over the luxury tax line for as long as their contracts run (assuming they get in the $30-$40MM/yr. range). So while it wouldn't be the most surprising thing in the world if they went over in 2019 & 2020, the only team that's locked themselves above the Luxury tax line for 3+ years in the recent past has been the Red Sox, so who knows if all of the big budget teams are even capable of it. [/QUOTE]
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