Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has told general manager Ned Colletti that he will have the means to sign Clayton Kershaw, Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier to long-term contracts this winter. The organization is currently engaged in a bankruptcy case. "Do we have the number solidified yet? No," Colletti said. "But I have a range of money that I can spend, and the conversations I've had indicate there are different ways of doing it." One of the ways is offering big-money contracts with modest first-year salaries that would escalate dramatically in later years.