LAAoA Can't Afford to Extend Trout

[Can_of_corn]

It is a CBT issue.

http://aldengonzalez.mlblogs.com/2013/09/27/mike-trout-the-cbt-and-why-the-link-matters/

So, for example: Albert Pujols is making $16 million in 2013, which counts towards the Angels? payroll figure. With regards to the CBT, though, he?s making $24 million ? the average annual value of the 10-year, $240 million contract he signed in December 2011.

How does this relate to Trout?

Well, let?s say the Angels sign him to a 10-year, $300 million deal (that?s just a number I?m throwing out, basically because it?s easy to divide ? and perhaps because I?m thinking of Robinson Cano). Even if in that contract, Trout is making only $1 million in 2014, the figure for the CBT payroll would be the AAV of that: $30 million.

:rofl:

[Crazysilver03]

They can afford to extend Trout. They really just need to wait a season for Wells to come off the books. And they could trade Kendrick.