The International Signing Thread

[southsider2k5]

3 minutes ago, Bob Sacamano said:

Especially when it is said there is a plan for it. $740k is a decent amount too.

The plan was Jerry was keeping that money for the investors.

[Y2Jimmy0]

22 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:

That’s an absolute fucking embarrassment.  @Y2Jimmy0 - Have you heard any rationale for this?

 

22 hours ago, Bob Sacamano said:

Especially when it is said there is a plan for it. $740k is a decent amount too.

There's really no excuse. My guess is they'd say they couldn't trade it. Even if they were to say that they reallocated the money to something else (employees, technology, etc), they could still do that and trade the $$. If they trade $740K in international space, no money actually changes hands. You're literally just giving someone else the right to spend $740K more of their own money. It's pretty frustrating though. 

[caulfield12]

On 12/18/2024 at 3:05 AM, Y2Jimmy0 said:

 

There's really no excuse. My guess is they'd say they couldn't trade it. Even if they were to say that they reallocated the money to something else (employees, technology, etc), they could still do that and trade the $$. If they trade $740K in international space, no money actually changes hands. You're literally just giving someone else the right to spend $740K more of their own money. It's pretty frustrating though. 

I bet Getz was more concerned that the money would be spent on signing Sasaki...which we never realistically had a shot at, anyway, but it would look pretty bad if we facilitated him signing elsewhere unless another team was convinced that parting with a product and upping their bid by $740,000 was really going to be worth it in the end.