08-18-2016, 01:15 AM
BOS gets:
Williams, Bart 29 RF 83 83 $9,000,000 2
Klee, Nick 19 SP 68 94 $32,300 Arb 68
Herrod, Patrick 22 SP 83 93 $47,100 Arb 68
Carbajol, Gaetan 22 SP 65 86 $32,300 Arb 68
LAD gets:
McCluskey, Sam 29 LF 93 93 $32,200,000 2
Again we run into the dilemma with McCluskey – deal him for what I’m told (this time) is a good package, or keep him until his contract runs out, extend him into his mid-30s at maybe 25-28 mil a year and take a chance he dies off. I could wait a season and try and trade a 30-year-old player who will need that 25-28 mil a year to extend into his mid-30s and take a chance of getting something decent for him. I don’t see that happening.
We will suffer some without him but I really don’t believe enough to take the chance of losing him next year for a draft pick. If McCluskey is 26 this is a no-brainer, I keep him, but he’s 30 when his contract runs out so this is what I think is the right thing to do. We drop off in our two-hitter spot but I don’t believe that will hurt us too badly in the long run.
This also gets Sam out of the AL, at least for now.
Williams, Bart 29 RF 83 83 $9,000,000 2
Klee, Nick 19 SP 68 94 $32,300 Arb 68
Herrod, Patrick 22 SP 83 93 $47,100 Arb 68
Carbajol, Gaetan 22 SP 65 86 $32,300 Arb 68
LAD gets:
McCluskey, Sam 29 LF 93 93 $32,200,000 2
Again we run into the dilemma with McCluskey – deal him for what I’m told (this time) is a good package, or keep him until his contract runs out, extend him into his mid-30s at maybe 25-28 mil a year and take a chance he dies off. I could wait a season and try and trade a 30-year-old player who will need that 25-28 mil a year to extend into his mid-30s and take a chance of getting something decent for him. I don’t see that happening.
We will suffer some without him but I really don’t believe enough to take the chance of losing him next year for a draft pick. If McCluskey is 26 this is a no-brainer, I keep him, but he’s 30 when his contract runs out so this is what I think is the right thing to do. We drop off in our two-hitter spot but I don’t believe that will hurt us too badly in the long run.
This also gets Sam out of the AL, at least for now.