CIN/BAL

[jps93]

:CIN receives:

1B Adrian Gonzalez 79
$2M cash

:BAL receives:

SP Noah Scurlock 53/73
RP Gabriel Abiles 51/71

accept. I get cash to cover most of adrian's buyout in case I don't like him, he's a fan favorite and he's be great against righties while I'm waiting for miller. A platoon of him and reimold will hopefully be better than fernandez last year.

['PR']

Baltimore accepts. It would have cost us a little over $3M to cut Adrian now that we have Tillotson and Welgarz. Why not get 2 specs and save $1.25M along with losing $6M in payroll?

[AndyP]

Approved

[Jordan]

Approve

[Scott]

DENIED! "Players with a contract over 3M cannot be traded for 12 months."

BALTIMORE FINED 5M AS HE SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED THIS RULE TO ME EARLIER

[Jordan]

He's been with Baltimore this whole time, and got the fallback offer, this looks like a loophole. I wont put the trade in but I wont jump to fine him just yet, i'd like DJ to look at this, because im not sure where the rules would stand with a guy who has been with baltimore.

I thought the rule was like for new FAs a team signs, not basicly a contract extension as thats what you have here.

['PR']

HELLO....SCOTTY......WE OFFERED ARBY TO GONZO....WE DIDN'T SIGN HIM.....HE CHOSE TO COME BACK BECAUSE HE DIDN'T GET A BETTER DEAL. WE CAN DEAL HIM IF WE WANT UNDER THOSE TERMS.

[Jordan]

Mstrpr is right.

Done