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wordflyer
Pretty sure they didn’t dump Zach Britton’s contract. That’s a pretty significant error there.
TheMichigan
Yea it was Matusz’s contract, kinda want to change that.
Jeff Todd
Yeah, it was a solid mental gaffe. I fixed it. Hopefully it was fairly evident to anyone who noticed.
zachbritton
What the hell, Jeff! You scared the crap out of me!
MB923
Hahahahaha
ThatGuy 2
Ha! We need to be able to upvote comments.
Jeff Todd
Sorry man, you’re safe.
bringinit247
No mention of Zach Britton here, unless it is edited. One quote from Zach Buchanan though.
Jeff Todd
It was edited.
chieftoto
Wow. Orioles really don’t care about the future. I know two int’l signing slots isn’t huge, but for one class A player, it doesn’t really make sense.
mstrchef13
The O’s aren’t going to do anything in the current international window, so why not get something for those slots instead of letting them waste away? Makes perfect sense to me.
davidcoonce74
It does make sense, honestly. They get a player into the system who is already on a development path and that they have some concrete information about. That’s basically a slight upgrade on a crapshoot international signing, which could turn into nothing.
dwilson10
The O’s rarely sign international players and they need pitching help in the minors, so this deal makes perfect sense.
GRob78
Not sure how you get from these, reasonable acquisitions for low value (historically) picks, to “the Orioles really don’t care about the future” when they’ve got plenty of options to build value into their farm system. This is a better path given the club seems hard pressed to find (and develop) solid pitching on their own. (Which is an entirely different conversation.)
tim815
I’m not the original poster, but I’m guessing it might be a “If you don’t even bother spending your international cap space, how do you plan to compete long-term?” voice.
Turtle
The Reds’ international pool allotment for 2015-16 is $2.873 million. Cincinnati spent $3.46 million. That puts the team $587,000 over its allotment. I speculate the Reds acquired Baltimore’s No. 2 slot, worth $363,900, and No. 3 slot, worth $245,700. Those slots total $609,600 and bring the Reds back under their pool limit. The Orioles spent $852,900 under their limit in this signing period.
agentx
Thanks, Turtle. Didn’t make any sense to me for either team without that context.
theo2016
I believe this is correct.
Orioles Magic
I’m starting to think this is a conspiracy trade- 750k for a 23 year old single A pitcher? Seriously? If the Reds use the dough I think there will be a reciprocal ptbnl.