One more year

Sal Fasano played this season hoping for nothing more than membership of the major league's health plan. He didn't get it. Breaks your heart (possibly poor choice of words).

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Bummer

Too bad he couldn’t have been called up for a bit. Hope the kid bounces back. Having a sick kid is rough.

The 46% tax rate comment sounds bad (and it is), but when you combine fed, state, and FICA (as he clearly is) there are a lot of people with 40%+ tax bite … such as me (and my income isn’t 30% of what his is – but my state tax rate is MUCH higher). At least he lives in a state with relatively low taxes (flat 3%).

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by kosmo on Sep 28, 2009 8:44 AM MDT reply actions

FICA?

Oh my – do you know what that means in Italian? (this isn’t the McCovey Chronicles so I couldn’t say)

But yeah – it would have been good to have included him in the September call-ups instead of Phillips – nothing against Phillips, but Sal has also put in the legwork this season and merits it just as much.

by biondino on Sep 28, 2009 9:59 AM MDT up reply actions

Fasano's ankle injury

The article alludes to an ankle injury:

Once, O’Dowd says, the team nearly brought him up, “but Sal had a sprained ankle at the time, and what good is an injured backup catcher? So it never happened. The last thing I’d ever want to do is hurt Sal, but it was simply the case of being fair to our other catchers who were also working to be brought up here.”

I assume this was when Phillips and Bellorin came up while Iannetta and Torrealba were out? If so, that’s a heck of a time to have an injury if Fasano truly was in the running for the callup.

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by FooMan on Sep 28, 2009 10:03 AM MDT up reply actions

tax - really?

I assume you’re self-employed? I also don’t know which of his salaries you’re comparing yours to, but if your “income isn’t 30% of what his is” this season, doesn’t that put you in the 15% federal bracket…meaning your state taxes are really 10%+?

Anyway, not to detract from the article, which I recommend.

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by FooMan on Sep 28, 2009 10:00 AM MDT up reply actions

No ...

I meant I don’t make 30% of what he did LAST season (the season he is referring to regarding the 46% taxes). With 7.65% FICA and 3% Illinois, he’d have to be in the 35% bracket to have a total marginal tax rate of 46%. 35% bracket begins at $357, 500 … my household income is not 30% of that.

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by kosmo on Sep 28, 2009 2:33 PM MDT up reply actions

Could the Rocks just call him up for one day?

Swap him with someone they’re not planning on keeping on the playoff roster. Last game against the Brewers, give him that one day on the MLB team to renew the health plan? Or are there other factors involved that I’m unaware of?

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by ShadowPenguin on Sep 28, 2009 11:14 AM MDT reply actions

I don't believe he is on the 40-man

someone would have to be outrighted

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by Andrew Martin on Sep 28, 2009 11:57 AM MDT up reply actions

Ah ha

That would definitely complicate matters :-/

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by ShadowPenguin on Sep 28, 2009 1:59 PM MDT up reply actions

He had a great spring, so I thought he would certainly get the call at some point

Then I went to a Sky Sox game in July and saw that he was struggling mightily in AAA. I was kind of rooting for the guy – seems like a real character.

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by Rawktober on Sep 29, 2009 7:29 AM MDT reply actions