Sox acquire SS prospect Yeyson Yrizarri

[southsider2k5]

These type of deals do not involve shifting $4 million in signing money. usually 1/2 million or so.

 

 

 

$1.5 would make more sense.

 

Again, what better deal was out there, and how much cap space were they asking for?

[harfman77]

These type of deals do not involve shifting $4 million in signing money. usually 1/2 million or so.

 

 

That was under the old system though when teams were assigned international signing slots. Now there aren't slots and teams can trade away 3/4 of their total pool. Based on receiving a top 20 org prospect, its reasonable to think that the Sox gave up 75% of their pool (which they can't really use anyway) and recouped a decent prospect out of the situation.

[caulfield12]

FWIW, Otani just made his season debut last Wednesday and got shelled. Didn't get out of the 2nd inning. He was visibly frustrated and was missing his spots bu 12+ inches at times. The stuff looked sharp and the velo was fine -- I think it was pretty clearly rust.

 

But it'll be interesting to see if he can regain full form before the end of the season, and if he doesn't, if it means he waits another year.

 

Passan was talking about Otani on the radio today....that there really wasn't a comp and that he's basically the biggest free agent asset (theoretically) on the market in the history of the Japanese Professional League, due to his being a fascinating legit combined hitter and pitcher, and due to his age, his power/velocity combination, and the overwhelming hype since an early age and naturally mentioned Dice K, Tanaka, Darvish, Nomo as well.

Edited July 18, 2017 by caulfield12