Diamondbacks to save $6.5 million of cash owed to Aaron Hill

Hearing the Dbacks are saving $6.5M of the $12M owed to Aaron Hill.

— Nick Piecoro (@nickpiecoro) January 31, 2016

That would mean we're sending about $5.5 million in cash to the Brewers along with the players, as Aaron Hill was slated to earn #12 million next season. I'll update my Diamondbacks payroll spreadsheet and write about what that means overall in the morning, but my initial reaction is that this ends up as quite a good deal for the D-backs. If we assume Wagner for Dias is more or less a wash, and that offensively, Hill and Segura in 2016 might be fairly close too, then we dealt a pitcher who was just one of a roster of candidates for the fifth spot, and saved $6.5 million. Curious to see how the battle for middle infield positions goes in spring though.

Oh, and a fun fact resulting from this move. The highest-paid position player on the 2016 Diamondbacks will now be... [drum roll] Yasmany Tomas. Not certain how I feel about that...