The San Francisco Bay Area Giants made their final lineup progresses Saturday in preparation for Monday's Opening Day battle with the Los Angeles Dodgers. According to Alex Pavlovic of the San Jose Mercury News, the club acquired the contract of catcher Guillermo Quiroz and optioned outfielder Cole Gillespie to Triple-A Fresno to set the last 25-man roster. The Giants introduced earlier in the day in the week that reliever Chad Gaudin had acquired the the problem for the area in the possibility and bullpen the team had been made by Nick Noonan as a utility infielder. Picking Quiroz over Gillespie provides manager Bruce Bochy more in-game defensive mobility because they can now use Sanchez as a pinch-hitter and never have to be worried about working out of catchers. However, the move weakens the Giants' bench offensively. The 31-year-old Quiroz has struck just.206/.265/.272 in 282 big league plate appearances and.249/.322/.410 in his minor league career. Gillespie has not hit well in his short major league time either, but he is hit a remarkable.290/.393/.474 in his minor league career. The Giants went with Quiroz as a catcher despite his lack of a bad course record.Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports The Giants' Opening Day paycheck may approach $150 million this year, based on contractual knowledge from Baseball Prospectus' Cot's Baseball Contracts. The Opening Day payroll has increased from $82 million in 2009, to $96 million during the first World Series title season, $118 million in 2011, $131 million last season and around $149 million in 2013. This can be a 2013 salary and bonus information for each player who made the Opening Day roster: SP Tim Lincecum: $22 million SP Matt Cain: $20 million SP Barry Zito: $20 million RF Hunter Pence: $13.8 million CF Angel Pagan: $12 million ($7 million income, $5 million signing bonus) 2B Marco Scutaro: $8 million ($6 million pay, $2 million signing bonus) RP Jeremy Affeldt: $8 million ($5 million wage, $3 million signing bonus) 3B Pablo Sandoval: $5.7 million SP Ryan Vogelsong: $5 million RP Santiago Casilla: $4.5 million RP Javier Lopez: $4.25 million CAA Buster Posey: $8 million ($3 million income, $5 million signing bonus) RP Sergio Romo: $3.5 million OF Andres Torres: $2 million RP Jose Mijares: $1.8 million OF Gregor Blanco: $1.35 million SP Madison Bumgarner: $0.75 million IF Joaquin Arias: $0.925 million RP Chad Gaudin: $0.75 million IF Aubrey Huff: $2 million buy-out of 2013 option Pre-arbitration people (making about $0.5 million on 2013 ): Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford, Nick Noonan, George Kontos, Guillermo Quiroz, Hector Sanchez, Tony Abreu (DL), Brett Pill (DL) and Eric Surkamp (DL) Total: $148,830,000 Lincecum may be the highest-paid Giant in the last year of his contract.Leon Halip/Getty Pictures But, the group hasn't increased payroll by making large splashes on the free-agent market. Alternatively, they've paid their own players via contract extensions. Throughout the last couple of years, the Giants have extended the contracts of Posey, Romo, Casilla, Vogelsong, Sandoval, Cain, Lincecum and Bumgarner while also re-signing their very own free agents in Lopez, Affeldt, Scutaro and Pagan. Bochy and general manager Brian Sabean were also recently recognized with agreement extensions because of their work in assembling four immediately winning teams. Security is the title of the game for the Giants. Sabean is the longest-tenured general manager in baseball, and the staff is returning essentially the same list that finished off a sweep of the Tigers in the 2012 World Series. The price of that security has been a near 50 % increase in Opening Day paycheck since 2009. Credit for that would go to the fans for helping the team, the control class for getting the increased revenue into the payroll, Sabean for retaining and obtaining talent, Bochy for controlling that talent and the players for delivering two World Series titles in four years. The Giants start 2013 as baseball's model firm.
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