Orioles DFA Chris Tillman. Seriously, what the hades happened to this guy? He was an all-star in 2013, 16-6 in 2016, 2-12 the last two seasons with a 10.46 ERA this season.
What about Seunghwan Oh? He's only making 1.75 this season, and will make 2.5 next season.
10.8 k9
2.0 bb9
2.80 era
3.07 FIP
Get Britton to pair with him along with moose, and become an contender
Wahl is similar in value to Wisler. Maybe a little more. The equivalent to Toffey is Demeritte.
Familia is owed $3M the rest of the way. Britton is owed about $5M.
The A's are taking on all of the $3M. Plus they are sending $1M of international slot money to the Mets. $1M will get you a pretty good international prospect.
I will stick to my estimate that it would take Wisler and Ynoa (or some similar package) to get Britton, with the O's picking up about half the remaining salary.
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Basically what I figured it would cost. When the market is flooded with relievers, especially rentals, teams just aren't going to get the sort of return that the Yanks got with Chapman. Not to mention Chapman and Kimbrel are in a league of their own in terms of elite closers and the Cubbies were desperate to end their 100 year drought.
A similar package was probably like Derian Cruz or Demeritte and a non-prospect like Wes Parsons, Luke Jackson, etc.
Wonder if we avoided Familia due to the domestic violence arrest. Not the Braves way.
Britton is more money cost and a lefty and more teams are fixated on him.
Salas might be the best move the Braves make.
Can’t part with Rio Ruiz for rental.
Didn’t know how else to describe a 24 year old college bat scuffling in single A or a 26 year old reliever prospect with two major surgeries (TJ and TOS).
Yeah this seems to have set the market for reliever rentals and it seems super affordable for us. I wasn't super high on a Britton deal because of the presumed cost, but Wisler and Ynoa or something along those lines would be fine with me. In the current market, I would honestly be fine with making a couple of trades for bullpen reinforcements if need be.
I do wonder what the market is right now for supplemental position players. I would love to make a deal for Escobar if the price was right. He is looking like he could provide us about 1.5 wins the rest of the season and is a free agent after this year. He could probably be had for the same approximate price as Britton, or maybe even lower.
I think Escobar would cost slightly less than Britton. Both should be on AA's radar. They really complement the players we already have and would eliminate or mitigate a couple weaknesses.
If we wanted to do single stop shopping we should be talking to the twins about Zach Duke and Escobar.
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