Mariners sign Carlos Quentin

[rico43]

... 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.

 

[yeezus]

obviously no one felt he had really any value.

 

[JohnAdcox]

Yay! That’s $500k saved for Price! Oh, wait. Minors.

 

[Braves1976]

He has an opt-out date so it might not be long till he's up with the M's.

 

[yeezus]

He's retiring.
Does this save us money?

 

[Julio3000]

He's retiring.
Does this save us money?

No. It'll cost us whatever small portion the M's would have picked up if he made the bigs.

 

[yeezus]

No. It'll cost us whatever small portion the M's would have picked up if he made the bigs.

We're not paying him anything?
If he retires his money isn't guaranteed anymore.

 

[yeezus]

Quentin, I'm betting, will get at least 200 ABs for them, and will show he does have value.

did anyone take this?

 

[Julio3000]

We're not paying him anything?

If he retires his money isn't guaranteed anymore.

I'm assuming that we're on the hook for it because we DFA'd him.

 

[yeezus]

I'm assuming that we're on the hook for it because we DFA'd him.

Yeah, just read that's what happens.
What a joke tho. So he gets guaranteed money even after he retires...

 

[Hawk]

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?

 

[Julio3000]

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?

If he's unable to play because of injury, could we have gotten some kind of salary relief from insurance? I suppose not. Surely we'd have done that if possible.

 

[Hawk]

If he's unable to play because of injury, could we have gotten some kind of salary relief from insurance? I suppose not. Surely we'd have done that if possible.

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.

 

[sturg33]

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.

Clearly he is worthless. No team traded for him and the one who signed him will get nothing out of him.

At least we won't be on the hook for the $3M buyout for next year

 

[Hawk]

Clearly he is worthless. No team traded for him and the one who signed him will get nothing out of him.

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.

 

[Dalyn]

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?

It doesn't seem like it.

 

[Braves1976]

Clearly he is worthless. No team traded for him and the one who signed him will get nothing out of him.

At least we won't be on the hook for the $3M buyout for next year

What makes you think we're not? It was reported that we were back before we released him.

 

[zitothebrave]

What makes you think we're not? It was reported that we were back before we released him.

We are unless someone else signs him to a bigger deal or something liek that.