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If we end up sending Javy through waivers, the salary dump from someone just claiming him would be nice, but I hope that we'd be able to get one player in return. That would make up for the loss of draft picks for when he goes to free agency.

There won't be any draft picks because the o's won't tender him and I don't think anyone will sign him to a major league contract. Teams wouldn't trade for him, they won't give him a contract that'll cost picks.

The other thing from above is that you can always get PTBNL, thus circumventing any and all waiver issues.

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There won't be any draft picks because the o's won't tender him and I don't think anyone will sign him to a major league contract. Teams wouldn't trade for him, they won't give him a contract that'll cost picks.

The other thing from above is that you can always get PTBNL, thus circumventing any and all waiver issues.

Can the PTBNL be on the 40-Man Roster because that is one pretty big loop hole.

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Why couldn't he be? That's the point of naming him later. You run the risk of injury, so you have to have a back up players/players, but it's a tool that GM's use. For example, you can't trade a player you drafted for a year or a year after you've signed him....something like that...anyway, you could trade for a player and give up said prospect by making him a PTBNL with later being that 1 year anniversary. I know that's been done in the past.

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One more little tidbit - Javy's a Sox killer

.321 AVG., 1.035 OPS in 106 AB vs. the Sox

I could see the Yanks picking him up for this reason alone. They could DFA Fasano and a split duties b/w Posada and Javy and have Javy catch vs. the Sox. It makes too much sense for them to grab him.

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Can the PTBNL be on the 40-Man Roster because that is one pretty big loop hole.

I believe so, as the point is to keep the trade from impacting the current season's playoff race, not to be a bar on alienability. Also, the player named later can't have played in the same league as the team he's being traded to.

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