1st league, 9 games in. Before I knew about fatigue and there's a playing time bonus, I drafted 4 full-time OF. He's not gonna win any platoon time against Mantle/Ott/T.Williams, but he's solid. I also have 3 other cheap but great rate OFs for pitchers PH. The full-time bench OF has 1 PH AB, usually after the better rate guys get first crack, and was just bypassed for a spot start for a not quite FT starting OF (Ott).

Looks like I can do without him. What salary tax hit am i looking at to flip him for a small AB replacement and multiple arms upgrades ?

There's a 10% "tax" when you pick up someone off the waiver wire, so net of everything else you could drop just the one player and pick up a replacement with a salary of around $3.6 million who is available on the waiver wire under the GM's Office tab.

However, you also have some other options and some "free" money to play with in an open league:
* You have 6 AAA hitters and 2 AAA pitchers who you could use to potentially fill some of the holes. They can fill PA/IP to help you out, and there are usually a couple decent options in AAA. While these players all are listed with a $200,000 salary, in an open league they're actually much better than that (see https://www.whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?TopicID=388184 for more information on what the grades translate to in terms of performance and how to identify who your AAA player actually is).
* In addition to the salary of the waived player, you also have $1.6 million (the value of the AAA players) plus however much money you didn't use in drafting your team. So if you only spent $79.6 million in an $80 million league. You'd have the salary of the waived player plus $2 million ($1.6M for the AAA players, $400K in unused salary) to play with..

Don't abuse the waiver wire - the 10% penalty adds up quickly - but in a situation like this where you drafted sub-optimally it can definitely help.

So you can waive all your AAA guys to free up an extra 1.6M in salary cap? Meaning you could theoretically have a team with 81.6M?

You can't waive your AAA players - only the players you initially drafted. But the value of the AAA players ($1.6 million) is added to the available pool that you can spend on waiver pick ups.

And given the fact that "average" AAA players in open leagues are actually worth anywhere from $700,000 to $2.6M you could have far more than $80 million of value on your roster if you promote those players and send any low-priced players you drafted down in their place.

For example, my AAA first baseman in a league I'm in - with the fictitious auto-generated name Christian Mccallister - is *actually* 1999 Wally Joyner, who would cost $1,652,232 if you drafted him on your 25-man roster. That's nearly 400 plate appearances with a .248/.363/.350 slash line; not great, but better than you'd get filling out the final few spots on your roster with $200,000 players.

bucrogers315, some of this advice is not to help your current team but your next efforts.

In the future, draft your pitchers and 8 position players and if you want, a part-time low-cost 4th OF for pinch-hitting.

Fill the rest of your non-pitcher roster with players that cost around $200,000 and once the league starts and you have your AAA players to replace them with drop the 6 or 7 $200,000 position players in the WW and use the money saved to get a relief pitcher or a good backup etc. The 10% penalty which for your real players is onerous for dumping $1.4 mil of low cost players is only $140,000 and you can get a $1.3 mil player as your 5th OF since your 4th in any case is the AAA OF who is likely better anyway, or to get a good middle reliever etc.