A bad sign

Mark DeRosa- 3 years, $13 million

El Duque- 2 years, $12 million

Aramis Ramirez- 5 years, $75 million

Daisuke Matsuzaka- $51 million just for negotiation rights

No way in hell the Bucs keep up in this market. In this post here, Charlie points to a WTM comment that speculates that this offseason is going to be crazy in terms of dollars thrown around. Like Manny/A-Rod 2001 crazy. Jeff Passan at Yahoo! Sports sees the same thing. I don't see anything that's happened so far to contradict that.