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Steve Trachsel Traded

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He's not a perfect player, but I don't think you should be disturbed about a top 10 prospect you got as a thrown in for a salary dump.

Sorry but a red flag goes up for me when a club is willing to trade a top 10 prospect at the waiver trading deadline for a likely rental of Steve Trachsel.

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I'll admit I wouldn't have shed a tear had I seen we just up and released Trachsel, but to get a guy like Moore and Cherry back in return is like hitting the jackpot.

For the time being atleast............ I am man crushin' on Andy MacPhail.

Now we can see if he has any other miracles up his sleeves for the offseason.

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Sorry if this has been posted, but did anyone notice this article on http://www.SI.com?

"I've been talking to Andy for seven to 10 days about it' date='" Hendry said. "He had a lot of action on him. He was one of the real significant guys that cleared waivers. He was a hot ticket the last few days. We're lucky to get him."[/quote']

Looks like there might have been a bidding war for Trax - What a nice change of events.

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Sorry but a red flag goes up for me when a club is willing to trade a top 10 prospect at the waiver trading deadline for a likely rental of Steve Trachsel.

It's not a rental. He had a (vesting?) option for next year that we somehow got the Cubs to pay for.

If I were them, I'd rather it be a month-long rental.

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Sorry but a red flag goes up for me when a club is willing to trade a top 10 prospect at the waiver trading deadline for a likely rental of Steve Trachsel.

My only point is that this trade should have been purely a salary dump. I would have cleared space for a young pitcher and dumped Trax's salary for scraps. Additionally, we ended up with a guy (maybe two) who have a shot at contributing at the major league level. I'm not worrying about any red flags. If he never cuts it in the bigs, big deal. If he does, that's a steal (that was an unfortunate rhyme).

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It's not a rental. He had a (vesting?) option for next year that we somehow got the Cubs to pay for.

If I were them, I'd rather it be a month-long rental.

There's a $4.75m club option with a $0.1m buyout... at least that's what Cot's Baseball Contracts has.

So, the trade saves the ballclub about $617k for the remainder of the year (includes the 100k buyout). So, yeah it is a rental unless the Cubs really want Trachsel at $4.75m for 2008.

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There's a $4.75m club option with a $0.1m buyout... at least that's what Cot's Baseball Contracts has.

So, the trade saves the ballclub about $617m for the remainder of the year (includes the 100k buyout). So, yeah it is a rental unless the Cubs really want Trachsel at $4.75m for 2008.

Maybe it was just a rumor that the Cubs picked up his option, cause I can't find it anywhere. My bad.

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