... to a minor league contract. Count me among those surprised that the Braves made little or no effort to deal him after the trade.
Quentin, I'm betting, will get at least 200 ABs for them, and will show he does have value.
... to a minor league contract. Count me among those surprised that the Braves made little or no effort to deal him after the trade.
Quentin, I'm betting, will get at least 200 ABs for them, and will show he does have value.
obviously no one felt he had really any value.
Yay! That’s $500k saved for Price! Oh, wait. Minors.
He has an opt-out date so it might not be long till he's up with the M's.
He's retiring.
Does this save us money?
Jon Heyman
@JonHeymanCBS
Technically, mariners are granting his release. But that's really semantics. Quentin's injuries won't allow him to play.
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Do the Braves actually employ MDs?
Why not just hang on to him and wait until injury (insurance is pretty standard on long-term MLB contracts these days, and Quentin's knee problems were pretty evident this spring) or retirement comes? Maybe that was a condition of him waiving his no-trade clause.
I still don't understand why the Braves felt such an immediate need to DFA him, though.
Braves1976 (05-02-2015), Dalyn (05-02-2015)
He's worth $8MM.
That's money the Braves have to pay him to sip Mai Tai's on a deserted beach somewhere when they could have just suffered through a month of him on the DL and let the Padres' insurer cover the rest.
Quentin is the anti-Gil Meche. Guess he needed the money.