Are you trying to say the Sox will keep him and pay him so that they can use him to sell tickets next year? Otherwise I am not sure I understand what you mean here.
It's not the other 28 names, it's Sheets. Either that or Getz goes bargain basement shopping in the F tiers of free agents again.
I think you accidentally got to the point of there not being a reason to waste good money on a bad player in Andrew Vaughn when that production isn't worth that much anyway.
Sheets was a minimum wage guy in those years. Vaughn is at $3.25 million in Arb 1, and heading to arb 2 and a sizable raise again, probably earning somewhere in the $5-6 million range. You cutting that check on a 100 loss team next year?
I'm actually not forgetting it. You are missing the point that Vaughn is probably gone within the next year, definitely within the next year and a ahlf.