The San Francisco Bay Area Giants made their final lineup moves on Saturday in preparation for Monday's Opening Day struggle with the La Dodgers. Based on Alex Pavlovic of the San Jose Mercury News, the club purchased the agreement of catcher Guillermo Quiroz and optioned outfielder Cole Gillespie to Triple-A Fresno to set the final 25-man lineup. The Giants announced earlier in the day in the week that reliever Chad Gaudin had gained the the project for the remaining position in the probability and bullpen the team had been made by Nick Noonan as a utility infielder. Selecting Quiroz over Gillespie gives manager Bruce Bochy more in-game defensive flexibility because they can now use Sanchez as a pinch-hitter and never have to be concerned about working out of catchers. But, the move weakens the Giants' bench offensively. The 31-year-old Quiroz has struck only.206/.265/.272 in 282 big league plate appearances and.249/.322/.410 in his minor league career. Gillespie hasn't hit well in his quick major league time both, but he's hit a remarkable.290/.393/.474 in his minor league career. The Giants went with Quiroz as a catcher despite his not enough an offensive track record.Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports The Giants' Opening Day payroll can approach $150 million this season, according to contractual knowledge from Baseball Prospectus' Cot's Baseball Contracts. The Opening Day payroll has increased from $82 million in 2009, to $96 million throughout the first World Series champion season, $118 million in 2011, $131 million last season and around $149 million in 2013. Here is the 2013 salary and benefit information for each player who created 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 wage, $5 million signing bonus) 2B Marco Scutaro: $8 million ($6 million income, $2 million signing bonus) RP Jeremy Affeldt: $8 million ($5 million income, $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 salary, $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 solution Pre-arbitration players (making approximately $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 ultimate year of his contract.Leon Halip/Getty Pictures Nevertheless, the staff has not improved payroll by making big splashes on the free-agent market. Instead, they've rewarded their very own people via contract extensions. During the last 2 yrs, the Giants have expanded the contracts of Posey, Romo, Casilla, Vogelsong, Sandoval, Cain, Lincecum and Bumgarner while also re-signing their own free agents in Lopez, Affeldt, Scutaro and Pagan. Bochy and general manager Brian Sabean were also recently honored with contract extensions due to their work in piecing together four straight winning teams. Security could be the name of the game for the Giants. Sabean is the longest-tenured general supervisor in baseball, and the staff is returning practically the same lineup that finished off a sweep of the Tigers in the 2012 World Series. The cost of that security is a near 50 % upsurge in Opening Day paycheck since 2009. Credit for that would go to the supporters for promoting the staff, the ownership group for putting the increased income into the payroll, Sabean for acquiring and keeping talent, Bochy for controlling that talent and the participants for delivering two World Series titles in four years. The Giants start 2013 as baseball's design organization.
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