UPDATE 1/24/2012 3:00PM: With the Giants signing Tim Lincecum the roster is essentially finalized with the last questions figuring out the last people on the bench and in the bullpen (even that might not be that interesting).

With the Lincecum deal it looks like the Giants will be at around $128-129 million dollars and the only real change that may come is if the Giants extend Matt Cain and it alters his 2012 salary as well. I'll keep updating things as the pre-arbitration deals are announced.

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The Giants have taken care of just about all of their arbitration cases (except for the really big one for Tim Lincecum but ) and with their roster pretty much set the picture of what the Giants payroll for next season is nearly complete.

With management setting a hard cap for the season at $130 million it looks like the team is going to be right at the number and may end up slightly over it depending on the raises that the team gives to the pre-arbitration players.

Here is the current roster with the salary for each player (or estimate):

Starting Pitchers	2012 Salary	Notes
Tim Lincecum	$18,000,000.00
Matt Cain	$15,330,000.00
Madison Bumgarner	$600,000.00	Pre Arb Estimate
Ryan Vogelsong	$3,000,000.00
Barry Zito	$19,000,000.00
	$57,180,000.00
Relief Pitchers	2012 Salary	Notes
Brian Wilson	$8,500,000.00
Sergio Romo	$1,575,000.00
Santiago Casilla	$2,200,000.00
Dan Runzler	$480,000.00	Pre Arb Estimate
Javier Lopez	$4,250,000.00
Jermey Affeldt	$5,000,000.00
Guilermo Mota	$1,000,000.00
	$21,005,000.00
Catchers	2012 Salary	Notes
Buster Posey	$600,000.00
Eli Whiteside	$600,000.00
Chris Stewart	$480,000.00	Pre Arb Estimate
	$1,680,000.00
Infielders	2012 Salary	Notes
Aubrey Huff	$10,000,000.00
Brandon Belt	$480,000.00	Pre Arb Estimate
Freddy Sanchez	$6,000,000.00
Brandon Crawford	$480,000.00	Pre Arb Estimate
Pablo Sandoval	$3,200,000.00
Mike Fontenot	$1,050,000.00
Emmanuel Burriss	$625,000.00
Brett Pill	$480,000.00	Pre Arb Estimate
	$22,315,000.00
Outfielders	2012 Salary	Notes
Nate Schierholtz	$1,300,000.00
Angel Pagan	$4,850,000.00
Melky Cabrera	$6,000,000.00
	$12,150,000.00
Still Owed Money	2012 Salary	Notes
Aaron Rowand	$13,600,000.00	Released
Total 2012 Payroll:	$128,680,000.00

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After the news broke yesterday that the Giants had acquired outfielder Melky Cabrera in exchange for Jonathan Sanchez and Ryan Verdugo some people think that this was a move that can help bring back Carlos Beltran.

Here is Henry Schulman writing in the Chronicle:

I also have think the Cabrera acquisition will persuade Beltran the Giants are willing to upgrade the lineup ahead of him.

Sorry I am not buying that. I don't think Melky Cabrera and his career .331on base percentage is what Beltran had in mind as a lead off guy to set the table for him no matter how the Giants will try to spin this.

In addition where is the money going to come from. Sure flipping Sanchez saved the Giants a million dollars or so but there is still just not enough left in the Giants self imposed budget to realistically go after him considering that they team has some other holes to fill and now also is talking about grabbing a veteran pitcher to compete for the 5th starter spot.

Here is the latest Giants budget numbers and it still isn't pretty.

Player	Salary	Budget Remaining
Lincecum, Tim	$    19.20	$             110.80
Zito, Barry	$    19.00	$               91.80
Cain, Matt	$    15.33	$               76.47
Rowand, Aaron	$    13.60	$               62.87
Huff, Aubrey	$    10.00	$               52.87
Wilson, Brian	$      8.50	$               44.37
Sanchez, Freddy	$      6.00	$               38.37
Affeldt, Jeremy	$      5.00	$               33.37
Cabrera, Melky	$      4.40	$               28.97
Lopez, Javier	$      4.25	$               24.72
Sandoval, Pablo	$      3.20	$               21.52
Jeff Keppinger	$      2.70	$               18.82
Torres, Andres	$      2.50	$               16.32
Ryan Vogelsong	$      2.50	$               13.82
Ramirez, Ramon	$      2.30	$               11.52
Casilla, Santiago	$      1.90	$                 9.62
Fontenot, Mike	$      1.30	$                 8.32
Romo, Sergio	$      1.30	$                 7.02
Schierholtz, Nate	$      1.20	$                 5.82
Whiteside, Eli	$      0.70	$                 5.12
Burriss, Emmanuel	$      0.60	$                 4.52
Posey, Buster	$      0.50	$                 4.02
Bumgarner, Madison	$      0.45	$                 3.57
Runzler, Dan	$      0.45	$                 3.12
Belt, Brandon	$      0.45	$                 2.67
Chris Stewart	$      0.45	$                 2.22

It sure looks like this might be the big offensive upgrade for the Giants this off season.

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