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Thanks, Blue.  Those ballpark numbers, $200M loss, 25% payroll reduction, those are helpful round numbers.  I get that they aren't perfect, but $200M versus $500M, that's helpful.  I'm guessing the Cubs will have lost more than some teams, because our payroll is 2nd in league and top-5 in the game.  (Most teams have leaner front-offices, too.). 

I'm pretty encouraged by the -25% payroll rumor.  I'd feared it might need to be way more severe than that.  The idea that we can just let the expirings expire, and bring back the core for another shot, is also encouraging.  I'd thought we might need to be releasing some from the Bryant/Baez/Schwarber group, since they don't have guaranteed salaries. Pleasant surprise if their is still so much budget willingness to pay salaries of their magnitude, or pay equivalent money to other players. 

Not sure that a rotation with Mills locked in as #3, Alzolay as #4, and Colin Rea and Tyson Miller competing for the 5th spot isn super exciting or a real world-series contender.  But if it's major change we want, committing to mills-Alzolay-Rea could provide change.  .