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apoxonbothyourhouses
The Braves are doing this to make sure we don’t incur any penalties for NEXT year. Three sources have told Keith Law that we’ve already locked up SS Kevin Maitan (LOADS of Miggy comps) for $4.25 million for 2016. That kid is a BEAST and, if true, the Braves will need as much money as possible.
No Big League Choo For Yu
The point isn’t what they are going to do with the money, it’s the fact that they gave up way more than teams typically do for that extra money.
flyerzfan12
I don’t know why the Phillies aren’t making trades like these for international slots. They’re spending over their cap pool, but not going all in and blowing past it like the Dodgers. But they’re spending enough to have to sit out the next 2 signing periods. Either act like the Dodgers or acquire a few slots so that you’re able to participate in next year’s signings when the majority of the big spenders have to sit out.
But like most things nowadays, the Phillies do it half-blank’ed.
fireboss
The Braves bonus pool was 2,458.400 and 50% of that would be 1,229,200 bringing their bonus pool to 3,687,600. If it’s 3.9m what am I missing here?
therealryan
I’m not sure if they have updated the story, but they show Braves adding $1,131,600 which brings their total to $3,590,000, which is just under their pool max of $3,687,600.
bjsguess
It’s interesting that the Braves were routinely lauded for ripping off the Diamondbacks last week. This week they do basically the same thing but in reverse and nobody says a peep about how the Rays took them to the cleaners.
Of course, Fulenchek isn’t as good as Toussaint. Goes without saying. On the flip side, what the Braves received in return is far, far, far less valuable than the $10M+ in salary relief that the D-Backs got.
braves12345
What you are failing to account for is the fact that money from international bonus slots is not at all the same as straight cash. The entire reason for doing these trades to get international bonus money is because the braves had deals in place for a couple top-10 international guys that they really liked, but they also DESPERATELY want to stay under the bonus pool cap so that they can go completely wild in signing as many people as they want from the more talented 2016 pool (like the yankees did in 2014 and the dodgers are doing this year).
Compare that to the Touissant trade, which was literally just so the dbacks could acquire straight cash. The motivations behind that trade and the ones yesterday are completely different.