Orioles Deal Gausman/O'Day to Braves - Schoop to Brewers

[jamalshw]

Orioles NEED to get Gaston and VVM to make this make sense.

[sportsfan8703]

Love the Brewers trade. The Braves trade was a necessary evil to get VVM. 

[Moose Milligan]

Happy we got slot money here.  Let's get VVM and some other pieces, too.

[LookitsPuck]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

My guess is that was a sweetener by Atlanta towards the end of the negotiations.    I doubt we have up a system top 11 prospect that was in the deal in order to offload O’Day.    

I sure hope not. Especially with how underwhelming the trade was.

[atomic]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

My guess is that was a sweetener by Atlanta towards the end of the negotiations.    I doubt we have up a system top 11 prospect that was in the deal in order to offload O’Day.    

12 million dollars as a throw in?  

[eddie83]

They must really like Victor Victor. 

[sportsfan8703]

Now we can non tender Beckham in the offseason too. 

[Natty]

Meet our new second baseman...

International bonus money.

[GoldGlove21]

3 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

I guess you have to include getting VVM when weighing the Braves deal. 

What good is all that international money if you do not get VVM?

[crawjo]

Villar is the kind of player you pick up just to tide things over during a rebuild. Maybe he's decent and you trade him for something later. Maybe he's not and you just bench or DFA him.

[Hank Scorpio]

What a weird day.

[eddie83]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

Happy we got slot money here.  Let's get VVM and some other pieces, too.

Makes no sense to acquire it if you aren’t going to spend it all. 

[Aristotelian]

3 minutes ago, keithstone said:

This is about right, spot on. Don't underestimate Ortiz though, your FO needs to keep him motivated and keep his weight under control. If that happens he has easy mid-rotation upside.

Lots of Waffle Houses and fast food around Norfolk. Hope they can keep him away from those places.

[sportsfan8703]

Just now, GoldGlove21 said:

What good is all that international money if you do not get VVM?

Why else would we do it?

[jgjbanker]

Agree on the Braves trade. Underwhelming at best. With all of the money we have already shed, I would have preferred to keep O'Day and try to move him at next year's trade line and try to get a better return for Gaus.