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Jose Abreu back to the MLB soon?


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1 hour ago, Buehrle>Wood said:

Better than Vaughn

 

Edit: please no one take this seriously 

Non-tender Vaughn, sign Abreu to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training and a minimal salary if he makes the big league team? I'd prefer that to keeping Vaughn. Gets rid of vaughn, who just hasn't worked, and keeps options open for others to come in.

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19 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

Non-tender Vaughn, sign Abreu to a minor league contract with an invite to spring training and a minimal salary if he makes the big league team? I'd prefer that to keeping Vaughn. Gets rid of vaughn, who just hasn't worked, and keeps options open for others to come in.

Not a bad plan. Or sign Jose and keep Vaughn. They can split time playing 1B and DHing. Get rid of Sheets, not Vaughn. I think this could work out. Jose must be lifting and pulling again if he has 4 homers. And Vaughn like it or not is our best hitter. Yikes.

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13 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

If we are going to waste money on "LeAdErShIp" it might as well be with some who is actually well respected. 

I mean, Jose is getting paid $20M in 25 by the Astros. He'd cost the pro rated minimum. He's probably toast, but it'd be cheap toast at least. 

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6 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

How do the rules work on this? 

I think this is what @ChiSox59 is referring to but hopefully he can correct me if I’m wrong…

https://www.purplerow.com/2009/2/19/762532/mlb-transactions-part-thre

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In addition, a player with 3 years of major league service may refuse an outright assignment and choose to become a free agent, regardless of whether he has been sent outright to the minors previously. A player with five or more years of ML service time, as with minor league options, is given even more rights. The player cannot be outrighted even once without Veteran's Consent, even if he clears waivers. If the player refuses his assignment to the minors, the team must either release him, making him a free agent, or keep him on the major league roster.

Regardless, in the case of the five-year service player, the team is obligated to pay the player under the terms of his guaranteed contract. If he is released and signs with a new team, his previous team must pay the difference in salary between the two contracts if the previous contract called for a greater salary.

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9 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

I still have never seen any evidence that he was some sort of team leader. 

The time that Lopez felt something in his elbow, Renteria went out to the mound, Lopez said everything was fine so Renteria went back to the dugout, Abreu walked to the mound, asked him what was up, got a different answer, and Abreu called the trainer back out and Lopez wound up with a short preventative 15 day IL trip was a pretty good day of out-managing the coach for Abreu.

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1 hour ago, southsider2k5 said:

If we are going to waste money on "LeAdErShIp" it might as well be with some who is actually well respected. 

Someone like Salvy? I wish it was offseason 2023 and the worst thing we could’ve done was trade for Perez. 

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17 hours ago, greg775 said:

Not a bad plan. Or sign Jose and keep Vaughn. They can split time playing 1B and DHing. Get rid of Sheets, not Vaughn. I think this could work out. Jose must be lifting and pulling again if he has 4 homers. And Vaughn like it or not is our best hitter. Yikes.

 

I'd probably just keep Vaughn another year to give you 70-80 RBIs on a bad team again, and maybe you get lucky and he improves a bit.  They're not going to spend in FA and they don't have anybody in the system to take his spot.  

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Jose Abreu is my favorite player of the last 10 years. He is also 100% washed up. We saw it in Houston. Him beating up on lower level competition doesn't change that. I can't believe an option has been presented that makes Vaughn look good, but... please just keep Vaughn if this is the alternative.

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41 minutes ago, almagest said:

Jose Abreu is my favorite player of the last 10 years. He is also 100% washed up. We saw it in Houston. Him beating up on lower level competition doesn't change that. I can't believe an option has been presented that makes Vaughn look good, but... please just keep Vaughn if this is the alternative.

This is exactly how I have felt about almost every move made in the year and a half.

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