Kimbrel/Melvin Trade Thread

MadduxFanII said:
If you consider Melvin an utter non-entity (and he surely is), Quentin a one-year guy to soak up some ABs and even up the cash and Maybin a buy-low candidate, we basically traded Kimbrel for Wisler, Paroubeck and the 41st. That's not a sizzling return, but throw in the rest of Upton's contract and I think you have a pretty solid deal.

I would probably have preferred getting another handful of prospects instead of Quentin and Maybin, but I would wager those two were non-negotiables on San Diego's end.
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If not my exact thoughts, pretty darn close. I didn't realize that Maybin is making the kind of money he's making: $7 MM in 2015, $8 MM in 2016, and $9 MM in 2017.
 
Joel Sherman
@Joelsherman1
#Braves save $19.35M swap Upton for Maybin/Quentin. More vital owe nothing after ’16 heading to new stadium in ‘17
 
Chris Cotillo
@ChrisCotillo
Melvin/BJ Upton will be owed $46.35M to be #Padres fourth outfielder for next three seasons.
 
And now reality slowly sets in:

Jayson Stark
@jaysonst
When I asked this spring about the possibility #Braves could trade Kimbrel this year I was told they had Grilli & Johnson as backups in case
 
This echos how I feel about the Padres end of this.

@matthewpouliot: Kimbrel is awesome. But the Padres just took on a horrible contract and gave their top SP prospect for something they didn't really need.
 
Heyward said:
There's a TON of good SP's on the market next winter.

Cueto as well as others.
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FA SP

Brett Anderson

Bronson Arroyo *

Clay Buchholz *

Mark Buehrle

A.J. Burnett

Trevor Cahill *

Chris Capuano

Jhoulys Chacin

Wei-Yin Chen

Bartolo Colon

Johnny Cueto

Ross Detwiler

R.A. Dickey *

Marco Estrada

Doug Fister

Gavin Floyd

Yovani Gallardo

Jaime Garcia

Zack Greinke (opt-out)

Jeremy Guthrie *

J.A. Happ

Dan Haren

Tim Hudson

Hisashi Iwakuma

Scott Kazmir

Ian Kennedy

John Lackey

Mat Latos

Mike Leake

Colby Lewis

Tim Lincecum

Kyle Lohse

Justin Masterson

Brandon Morrow

Bud Norris

Mike Pelfrey

Rick Porcello

David Price

Jeff Samardzija

Alfredo Simon

Jerome Williams

Jordan Zimmerman

Asterisks are options.

Of that group, only Price and Zimmerman are great SP. Good SP is fine but Johnny ****ing Cueto isn't a difference maker. Sure he wouldn't be a bad add at all. But he's not a 1. He's not a guy I throw money at.
 
Bob Nightengale

@BNightengale

The #Padres just took on an extra $66.8 million in salary commitments with their #Braves trade.
 
gilesfan said:
Cant really complain about it. Seems like decent deal for both sides.
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I'm not even kidding I think you'd be jizzing your pants if the Nats made this deal from the Braves perspective.

this is a great great trade. I think those who criticized everything this off-season have to love this one. some were calling for dealing kimbrel and to get this return for a close who isn't even particularly cheap anymore is 100% as close to selling at highest value as you can get.
 
Lol. It's obvious this front office does not even want to begin to attempt to win anytime soon.
 
This.

@Joelsherman1: #Braves also get out of 3-$34M with Kimbrel. They were going to have an elite/expensive closer for few yrs with bad team. Didn’t make sense
 
zitothebrave said:
FA SP

Brett Anderson
Bronson Arroyo *
Clay Buchholz *
Mark Buehrle
A.J. Burnett
Trevor Cahill *
Chris Capuano
Jhoulys Chacin
Wei-Yin Chen
Bartolo Colon
Johnny Cueto
Ross Detwiler
R.A. Dickey *
Marco Estrada
Doug Fister
Gavin Floyd
Yovani Gallardo
Jaime Garcia
Zack Greinke (opt-out)
Jeremy Guthrie *
J.A. Happ
Dan Haren
Tim Hudson
Hisashi Iwakuma
Scott Kazmir
Ian Kennedy
John Lackey
Mat Latos
Mike Leake
Colby Lewis
Tim Lincecum
Kyle Lohse
Justin Masterson
Brandon Morrow
Bud Norris
Mike Pelfrey
Rick Porcello
David Price
Jeff Samardzija
Alfredo Simon
Jerome Williams
Jordan Zimmerman

Asterisks are options.

Of that group, only Price and Zimmerman are great SP. Good SP is fine but Johnny ****ing Cueto isn't a difference maker. Sure he wouldn't be a bad add at all. But he's not a 1. He's not a guy I throw money at.
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Cueto is a beast if healthy
 
To not even get a serviceable ML player for Craig Kimbrel is laughable. It's amazing how clueless people can have jobs in this front office.
 
I wish nothing but the best for Kimbrel, but can't believe someone took on Melvin's contract.

I wonder if Wisler makes an impact this season.

What's with the draft pick trading...I didn't think they did that in baseball.
 
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