Cardinals’ Payroll Confusion (An Open Thread)

Greetings Cardinals fans! I’m on the road up over to Kansas City where I will be partaking of the local fare (Joe’s BBQ) and cheering on the Chiefs before a week of meetings.

That means you get an Open Thread.

But I’m not leaving you without fodder for conversation.

This week, the Cardinals’ payroll became a whole huge thing and I can’t help but feel a little responsible for it. (Emphasis on a little.)

As many of you know, I’ve been tracking payroll around here for years. Before I was a writer at VEB I did the same at various other sites around the internet. It wasn’t a big deal. It was just something that I did to help guide reasonable offseason discussions and head off the “sign Machado AND…