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MLB 2018-2019 Off Season |OT| Now welcoming postseason losers
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Knowing the Dodgers FO they are probably clearing all this space so that they can sign AJ Pollack for 3 years/$60 million
The Reds are dumb as hell. Sending a legit prospect (I like Downs a lot) to take expiring bad money to help the Dodgers get under the Luxury tax.
I am shook. I understand the reasoning but we gave up so much value for so little. Farmer too? Really? Why would you give up a capable MLB catcher when you're already losing your starter? This is unbelievable.
Wood and Puig are decent but about to get really expensive. Farmer is a JAG. Kemp is pure filler. It's a salary dump that frees up salary and roster spots. The two main assets (Puig and Wood) are guys that probably aren't a part of the long term plans.
It's potentially a good move depending on what they do with this flexibility.
The reasoning is clear (40-man slots and money), but we're taking on $28m from Bailey and only freeing up what, maybe $40m in salary after arb/new contracts? It's not a significant gain for what's being given up. Wood was expendable but Puig is a major loss. Farmer is a really useful piece and was cheap too.
spending 12 mil and sending 2 unranked but decent prospects in order to decently improve their rotation and have matt kemp and Yasiel Puig on their team, which may not even still be on their team at the start of the season?
I don't know how good the outfielders the reds already have were. But there is still months left to the off season where they could trade one or both of the outfielders they just got for something else?
It's something like $17 million in savings in tax money (Bailey was only like $18 million in this regard for some reason, whereas Kemp counted $20 million and Puig/Wood combined were probably going to make like $20 million in arbitration.
I get the Puig loss being rough, but he was a good not great player who is still wildly inconsistent and was likely not going to be a part of the team beyond this season anyway. Essentially getting 2 okay to good prospects for him and dumping a bunch of money is potentially a great move for La, depending on what they do next. They now have the space to conceivably sigh Harper, and a couple more prospects to throw at a possible Kluber or Realmuto trade.
At least I won't be seeing all the baseball racists crying about Puig flipping his bat into the upper deck while clutching their pearls yelling about playing the right way.
Win!
Win!
You do realize that the reds did good in this trade right? Like y'all are acting opposite of us reds fans lol. We got trade bait and extra money. Yall do realize our farm system for INF is extremely deep right?
Is giving up two top 15 prospects for one season of Yasiel Puig and Alex Wood really all that good?
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It's called trade bait. I'm excited because it sets us up to trade for pitchers.
A couple of top prospects are probably more valuable than Yasiel Puig and Alex Wood if you are looking for a front line starter.
Y'all the only one negative about this. The Reds get two comp picks because of this deal. Our farm system is loaded so losing Downs doesn't kill us. Also the Reds would have a huge amount of money to use to possibly resign a couple of them.
I think the two prospects were more to turn the bailey 28 mil of uselessness into something useful.
This is true too. I guess it comes down to how the league views Puig. I thought it was crazy when people thought he could be a center piece in a Kluber type deal. He's a good player who still has a lot of warts he hasn't really improved upon in years, and he's going to want a huge contract in a year.
Dodger fans on Twitter are idiots not realizing that all this means Harper is going to be in LA soon.
This is a good point.
It looks like we're sending them $7m on top of all those players.. lol. Oh well, it is what it is. I have faith in the front office, but Puig was a special player who had a penchant for coming up big and I can't really think of anyone but JT who did it as often as him. From reading some tweets, it sounds like it'll be tough to sign Harper anyway if we care about the luxury tax threshold.
Y'all are the only baseball community on the internet to hate this trade for the Reds lol. I know our farm system, and this is more than acceptable. We are gonna have a lot of money next offseason to use since Bailey is gone. Also we got this guy named Jonathan India who's kinda good lol
Reds Lineup
José Peraza
Eugenia Suarez
Scooter Gennett
Joseph Daniel the King Votto
Jessie Winker
Yaisel Puig
Scott Schebler
Tucker Barnhart
Nick Senzel and Matt Kemp back up
Oh my that's fine
José Peraza
Eugenia Suarez
Scooter Gennett
Joseph Daniel the King Votto
Jessie Winker
Yaisel Puig
Scott Schebler
Tucker Barnhart
Nick Senzel and Matt Kemp back up
Oh my that's fine
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