Braves1976 (09-03-2015), Knucksie (09-03-2015), UNCBlue012 (09-03-2015)
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
I'm a Stella! fan, but obviously this trade worked out completely in our favor (so far). Still eager to see what he can do when healthy. I think he could pull off a .285 .370 .330. on a consistent basis. Could be a nice #2.
GovClintonTyree (09-03-2015)
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
Except that the reason we got Touki for only Gosselin was taking on Arroyo's salary, which we then traded to the Dodgers about a month later. If you do the standard math estimate, we ate about 2M of his salary in the end, the doders are winding up eating about 7.5M. You don't think there's value to what the Dodgers took on?
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
We got Touki for Gosselin + $9.5M
Braves1976 (09-03-2015)
In addition to what the others have said about the two trades being separate, you also can't just break the Dodgers deal down that simply. I could go with just about any combination of pieces of that deal to fit the narrative I'm after. Is Avilan and Gosselin for Touki a good deal?
That's the point I was making. What did we give up? Was it Peraza? Was it Avilan? Was it Wood instead of Perez? We don't know, but we can pretty safely assume we didn't trade Gosselin for Touki straight up. Either we're still eating the majority of Arroyo's deal and the Dodgers took him for likely one of the relievers so we had a 40 man spot without the penalty of straight up cutting him, or they're paying for him and we're giving up something for them to do it. I am not sure as I'm not in the FO. But it's hardly highway robbery anyway. We bought him for a big fee.
If someone offered 10M and a fringe player for Lucas Sims would you say no? And Sims has produced better in the minors than Touki as well.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
For one, Sims does not have the ceiling Touki does and is older with more twice as many innings. Of course he's had more success.
But regardless, no I wouldn't trade Sims for 10 million and fringe prospect. And I would be pretty pissed if the Braves did something like that.