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Rumor: Rios/Thornton to Brewers for Gamel?


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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 05:32 PM)
Rios has, what, about $33M remaining on his deal? I would think the Sox would be eating around $20-25M of that, right?

 

With the 2015 buyout, it's closer to $41-42M I believe, including the remainder of this season. I'd guess we'll be coughing up $25M+.

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QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:55 PM)
Yeah, for some reason I didn't carry a 1. Yeah, I figure its around $42-43M he has left.

 

 

I realize Rios is by far the worst player on our team this year, but a year ago he was one of the best... I don't like the idea of buying high and selling low. There is a possibility of Rios bouncing back next year, hopefully with some extra motivation after this atrocious year, and moving somewhat towards the norm of his career which isn't bad, even though he is still terribly underpaid. The problem with letting Rios go is that we still don't have a CF unless De Aza is the guy. If Rios does have a bounce back year next year and put up decent numbers in line w. his career, an OF of Viciedo, Rios, and Quentin doesn't sound so bad.

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QUOTE (Special K @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 05:02 PM)
I realize Rios is by far the worst player on our team this year, but a year ago he was one of the best... I don't like the idea of buying high and selling low.

buying high?

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QUOTE (Special K @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 07:02 PM)
I realize Rios is by far the worst player on our team this year, but a year ago he was one of the best... I don't like the idea of buying high and selling low. There is a possibility of Rios bouncing back next year, hopefully with some extra motivation after this atrocious year, and moving somewhat towards the norm of his career which isn't bad, even though he is still terribly underpaid. The problem with letting Rios go is that we still don't have a CF unless De Aza is the guy. If Rios does have a bounce back year next year and put up decent numbers in line w. his career, an OF of Viciedo, Rios, and Quentin doesn't sound so bad.

 

What do you mean? We bought very low on him, and are selling very low on him.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 06:06 PM)
Holy f***! If they pick up Rios's contract, someone owes Kenny a BJ.

Kenny would owe the Brewers a hot carl. I can't see this happening unless JR, who from what I hear has been very pissed off with Rios, just told KW to get rid of him no matter what the cost.

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 08:25 PM)
Kenny would owe the Brewers a hot carl. I can't see this happening unless JR, who from what I hear has been very pissed off with Rios, just told KW to get rid of him no matter what the cost.

That would be almost impossible to believe.

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We can't move Rios unless....

 

1) Quentin/Danks/Thornton (possibly 2 of them) are involved

2) We get back a legit CFer as part of the trade...a Rasmus level of player who's fallen out of favor and would still be under club control for 3-4 years.

3) If we give up that level of talent, we shouldn't pay more than $12-15 million of what's left on Rios' deal

4) If you subtract Quentin, you're not going to get enough offense out of Viciedo/DeAza and ??? (Milledge) unless we're getting other players back (CF/pitching/3B)

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 08:24 PM)
Then we better get some offense out of 3B if we're going to roll with that kind of inexperience in the OF.

 

I can't imagine strong season ticket renewals unless there's at least one significant improvement made somewhere coming into 2012.

 

Addition by subtraction.

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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 27, 2011 -> 09:24 PM)
Then we better get some offense out of 3B if we're going to roll with that kind of inexperience in the OF.

 

I can't imagine strong season ticket renewals unless there's at least one significant improvement made somewhere coming into 2012.

I think it's time to stop thinking about that and start making baseball moves.

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