The Sox need to deal some of their borderline 40 man players to Atlanta for international slot money.
No on e else will deal slot money with Ohtani in play and a chance at the Atlanta farm refugees available. Except Atlanta, who cannot re-sign them.
Then if/when Ohtani goes elsewhere, sign the Braves former prospects with their own money...
The Braves traded away all of their international bonus money:Originally Posted by notin
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Well, it was a good thread while it lasted.
So either I type too slow or Billy Eppler reads my posts...
The Cooler.
notin offered a great trade idea that happened.
It just didn't happen with the Red Sox.
Harm , You know what they say about the early bird............
I suspect the Braves had a boatload of offers for their international bonus money.
,,and they got a pretty nice return for the last of their bonus money.
Different trade idea.
What about abreu?
What players make sense for Chicago that would allow us to secure abreu?
Too much for a $17M 1Bman under team control for 2 years.
Just sign Santana for about the same money and keep the prospects.
What prospects?
The players required to acquire Abreu are unfortunately in the Cardinals' farm system...
I'm assuming 2-3 of our top 8 prospetcs with at least one coming from Groome, Chavis or Mata.
If the CWS are looking at a 3-4 year from now period, they may want farther away prospcts more than ML ready prospects:
19 y/o Groome
18 y/o Mata
19 y/o Brannen
19 y/o Scherff
19 y/o R Raudes
16 y/o D Diaz
17 y/o Antoni Flores
Give me the pros to the choice of trading Groome, Brannen & Diaz for 2 years of Abreu at $17M+ each year vs
just signing Santana at maybe $17M x 3 or $15M x 4 and incurring the QO penalties.
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