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The Hangover, Trade Deadline Edition: Gaming Out Salary Implications

What does the day after feel like? Naturally, it would have felt better with Martin Maldonado throwing out a runner in the 9th for a walk-off Championship Series, or Biagini getting key outs, rather than the 10-4 drubbing at the hands of the Tribe last night.

While the 25-man implications seem straight-forward (Urquiddy, Abreu, and Sneed go down), the long-term salary implications of the Greinke contract are more murky.

The Astros currently have the 5th highest payroll. Part of the prospect cost in the Greinke trade involved Arizona shelling out 24 of the 77 million owed to Greinke.