The Victor Victor Mesa/Sandy Gaston thread

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Malike said:

Miami can spend whatever they want. They'd just take a penalty no? If they can trade for 20M in slot space they could couldn't they?

No.

There is a hard cap in place.

If there wasn't why wouldn't the regular suspects be in on them?

Work with me here.

[TonySoprano]

1 hour ago, stef said:

So, . . . what do you think of Gaston?

Nobody says, "no" to Gaston
 

No one's slick as Gaston
No one's quick as Gaston
No one's neck's as incredibly thick as Gaston
For there's no man in town half as manly
Perfect, a pure paragon
You can ask any Tom, Dick or Stanley
And they'll tell you whose team they prefer to be on

 

[Malike]

3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

No.

There is a hard cap in place.

If there wasn't why wouldn't the regular suspects be in on them?

Work with me here.

This part of the CBA is what confused me - One difference in the new CBA is that teams will now be allowed to trade for additional pool space even if they have already spent their full pool allotment. Under the previous system, a team's bonus pool consisted of four individual slot values, and trading pool space required trading those slot values. The new system is just a straight bonus pool with no individual slot values, so that should make things simpler with regards to trades.

[AZRon]

12 minutes ago, Malike said:

Miami can spend whatever they want. They'd just take a penalty no? If they can trade for 20M in slot space they could couldn't they?

https://www.mlb.com/news/2018-19-international-signing-bonus-pools/c-269965184

"Teams are allowed to trade as much of their international pool money as they would like, but can only acquire 75 percent of a team's initial pool amount. Additionally, signing bonuses of $10,000 or less do not count toward a club's bonus pool, and foreign professional players who are at least 25 and have played as in a foreign league for at least six season are also exempt."

[Ripken]

So, now that these three are gone, is there anyone left to spend $6-7M on?

[Malike]

17 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

No.

There is a hard cap in place.

If there wasn't why wouldn't the regular suspects be in on them?

Work with me here.

As to the regular suspects not being involved, I think you know the answer as well as I do. - Teams that went over their bonus pools in previous signing periods to incur penalties will have those penalties carry over into the new CBA. So teams like the Padres, Astros and Braves that are over their current 2016-17 signing pool will be unable to sign a player for more than $300,000 in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 signing period, though they are still able to spend their full pool allotment or trade it away.

My question was to the first reply to your quote about teams spending all of their money being allowed to acquire more.

[Aristotelian]

1 hour ago, TonySoprano said:

 

 

 

Who can we trade to get more slot money quick? Givens? Villar?

[lovetoaster]

1 minute ago, Aristotelian said:

Who can we trade to get more slot money quick? Givens? Villar?

Givens is the one I was thinking of, but I don't think they make that deal just for slot money. And as well as Villar played for us, I don't think he has a ton of value in a trade scenario just yet.

I think we would have to trade a prospect of some sort to gain some more slot money. The teams that still have slot money are in a great position; they can gain a valuable player for something they likely were not going to spend anyways. Us however, I don't feel like we are in a good spot at all.   

[Aristotelian]

3 minutes ago, lovetoaster said:

Givens is the one I was thinking of, but I don't think they make that deal just for slot money. And as well as Villar played for us, I don't think he has a ton of value in a trade scenario just yet.

I think we would have to trade a prospect of some sort to gain some more slot money. The teams that still have slot money are in a great position; they can gain a valuable player for something they likely were not going to spend anyways. Us however, I don't feel like we are in a good spot at all.   

No, and I don't know that we should. We are pretty much down to controlled players who actually have value to us. To give one of them up for an unproven prospect seems like treading water or possibly going backwards.

[VaBird1]

33 minutes ago, Ripken said:

So, now that these three are gone, is there anyone left to spend $6-7M on?

They signed?

[lovetoaster]

2 minutes ago, VaBird1 said:

They signed?

I think its just an assumption. Maybe, hopefully...

[Ripken]

17 minutes ago, VaBird1 said:

They signed?

Those three have not signed (to my knowledge) but it's pretty clear what's going on.  While I still very much want the Orioles to sign V2 I don't see any real chance of it.  So, there's all this money, and we use it to... do... what?

[Bradysburns]

6 hours ago, Redskins Rick said:

I think from day 1 when their names first popped up and we was mentioned to be in the market, I gave the odds 50-50.

Part of me felt they was only in, as a PR move to appease the fan base.

But, trading away players and putting themselves in the market and the top dawg with the most money to spend.

I think the odds are more like 75-25.

I know Miami has a vast Cuban history for them, and hard to complete against that, but the team itself stinks and doesn't give them an advantage over another poor team.

But, I dont drink the kool-aid, if we dont get the guys either.

Interesting. I was the opposite, more or less. I thought we had a 75% chance of signing VVM before. Now, I think it has dropped to 25%. Has something happened to give you more confidence in a VVM signing now, versus before?

[Tx Oriole]

26 minutes ago, Ripken said:

Those three have not signed (to my knowledge) but it's pretty clear what's going on.  While I still very much want the Orioles to sign V2 I don't see any real chance of it.  So, there's all this money, and we use it to... do... what?

I think this organization is screwed. 

[Bradysburns]

27 minutes ago, Ripken said:

Those three have not signed (to my knowledge) but it's pretty clear what's going on.  While I still very much want the Orioles to sign V2 I don't see any real chance of it.  So, there's all this money, and we use it to... do... what?

I dunno. But if we don't sign any Cubans... it'll make the Gausman trade look even more suspect. I understand it was partially a salary dump. But why dump salary if not to reallocate cash toward prospects and development?