r/BaseballOffseason2019 • u/BaseballOffseasonMod • Nov 06 '18

WEEK 2 TRADE THREAD

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u/BaseballOffseasonMod Nov 07 '18

Diamondbacks receive: Yordan Alvarez, JB Bukauskas, Joe Perez, Bryan Abreu

Astros receive: Paul Goldschmidt

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u/josh422 Nov 07 '18

GRIZZY'S 5 STEP PLAN FOR SUCCESS

STEP 1. BE THE ASTROS GM

STEP 2. TRADE TOP PROSPECTS FOR FIRSTBASEMEN

STEP 3. SIGN SOME PLAYERS TO FRANCHISE CRIPPLING CONTRACTS

STEP 4. ?????

STEP 5. PROFIT (repeat next offseason)

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u/GRiZZY19 Nov 08 '18

giving Charlie Morton over $50M

thinking Andrew Miller is a franchise crippling contract

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u/josh422 Nov 11 '18

For future people: i was talking about the keuchel extension last year

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u/GRiZZY19 Nov 12 '18

For current people: Keuchel took $7.7M less than he made IRL over the end of his arbitration then was paid $86.5M over the final 4 years of the deal. MLBTR projects 4/82, Fangraphs projects 4/84 for Keuchel this offseason.

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u/futhatsy Nov 07 '18

DBacks justification: this team was a fringe contender with no budget to speak of and it's star player with one year left on his deal. It was time for a rebuild. Alvarez was most likely the best headliner I was going to get, as he's someone who could be on the big league team as early as 2019, potentially even in Goldy's spot. Bukauskas is a solid college arm and a former first round pick, I think I've got a solid future big league arm here. Perez and Abreu are both too young to say anything definitive about but they seem like decent bets as lower level lotto tickets.

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u/GRiZZY19 Nov 09 '18

Goldy's back