As a rough estimate, the D-backs will perhaps have about $10-$15 million additional to spend this winter. That's after funding the existing contracts, and expected arbitration raises - the biggest winners in the latter category will probably be Jean Segura and Welington Castillo, but the team has a total of nine players going through the process at one stage or another. So there is some uncertainty in the precise figure, but when we looked at this last month, we came up with a current Arizona Diamondbacks payroll estimate for Opening Day 2017, of $87 million.
According to GM Mike Hazen, he "expects the team to be in the same range as last year, i.