Yesterday's developments might leave you wondering how much the Nationals have invested in payroll in 2009 and beyond. So I took a few moments to scrounge up some contract details. Here you go...

ALREADY SIGNED FOR 2009

Cristian Guzman

$8 million (signed for $8 million in 2010)

Austin Kearns

$8 million ($10 million club option in 2010)

Nick Johnson

$5.5 million

Dmitri Young

$5 million ($6 million club option in 2010)

Wily Mo Pena

$2 million player option (or $5 million team option)

Ronnie Belliard

$1.9 million

ARBITRATION-ELIGIBLE IN 2009

Chad Cordero (made $6.2 million this year)

Jesus Colome (made $1.25 million this year)

Tim Redding (made $1 million this year)

Ryan Langerhans (made $500,000 this year)

Ryan Zimmerman (made $465,000 this year)

Ryan Wagner (made $450,000 this year)

DUE TO BECOME FREE AGENTS IN 2009

Luis Ayala

Aaron Boone

Johnny Estrada

Willie Harris

Paul Lo Duca

Felipe Lopez

Odalis Perez

UNDER NATS' CONTROL FOR 2009

Jason Bergmann

Kory Casto

Elijah Dukes

Jesus Flores

Joel Hanrahan

Shawn Hill

John Lannan

Charlie Manning

Lastings Milledge

Garrett Mock

Wil Nieves

Pete Orr

Saul Rivera

Steven Shell

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