Matt Kemp to Dodgers!
- Thread starter Oklahomabrave
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Agreed. Rotation as of now is Teheran/Gohara/Folty/Newk/Mcarthey. We are able to monitor his innings by using the 10 day DL. Shuttle in our AAA arms (Fried/Soroka/Allard) during the year to let them experience the big show.
I give up. You're right. You were always right about him.
braves31win
Arizona Fall Leaguer
He just hired Boras so won't be cheap.
I live in Houston and follow the Stros quite a bit. I expect him to regress this year after he disappeared 2nd half of last season.
I thought Kemp would hit better last season but the injuries derailed that. I think if he was on the roster that enscheff has the best idea. Give him regular days off and replace him defensively late in games every opportunity that you can. That should keep him healthier and decrease the negative value he brings defensively. Doing that correctly could lead to a ~1.5 WAR season. But getting him off the roster like this is even better.
We need to know Kazmir’s contract details as far as money coming back and deferred money owed. It may be a situation where we only pay him $8M this year and Dodgers pay all of the deferred money. See details on link
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tr...scott-kazmir-contract-details-dodgers-opt-out
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tr...scott-kazmir-contract-details-dodgers-opt-out
We hope it will be.I wouldn't trust this ownership group to do anything more then continue to look at the bottom line and not give a damn.
Already at around 110. They still want to add a reliever, a 3b, and an OFer. You think they are really gonna spend less than 10 or so million on that? AA already on record saying he thinks payroll could be around 130.
Braves revenues and ebitda increased a lot from last year. There is money to spent.
I certainly hope not. I would love to see a payroll of $130M.
Oklahomabrave
Anytime Now Frankie...
Do you now actually, dare I suggest, have hope for the payroll?
I think it’s going down from the $125M of last year.
I would love to see them add $20M+ in smart acquisitions and be fringe WC contenders though.
dak
Well-known member
Since the net salary exchange here is neutral, this trade seems to work out for both teams based on this "exchange":
- Braves get to completely front load their dead money side of this swap in 2018. When the sun came up this morning, they had $18m of dead money in 2019, and now they have zero.
- Braves get a ~2 WAR veteran SP that they were going to be pursuing anyway at a reasonable rate.
- The Dodgers end up looking like obvious losers on the salary and player exchange, but they save a ton of overall money because their luxury tax overage percentage goes form 50% to 20% this year.
So in a sense, the Braves are able to get a great deal here because of the Dodger's luxury tax situation. One way to think about it is the Dodgers split the value of the luxury tax savings with the Braves, and the Braves side of the split came in the two perks noted above . . . while the Dodgers half is pure money.
- Braves get to completely front load their dead money side of this swap in 2018. When the sun came up this morning, they had $18m of dead money in 2019, and now they have zero.
- Braves get a ~2 WAR veteran SP that they were going to be pursuing anyway at a reasonable rate.
- The Dodgers end up looking like obvious losers on the salary and player exchange, but they save a ton of overall money because their luxury tax overage percentage goes form 50% to 20% this year.
So in a sense, the Braves are able to get a great deal here because of the Dodger's luxury tax situation. One way to think about it is the Dodgers split the value of the luxury tax savings with the Braves, and the Braves side of the split came in the two perks noted above . . . while the Dodgers half is pure money.
When AA said $130M, a few on the board questioned where he would spend that money given that the desirable FA guys were already gone.
I think he gave us a big part of the answer to that question today.
We have been kicking around the idea of the Braves using 2018 payroll to get rid of Kemp’s contract by buying him out. Rather than simply do that, AA was able to get a #4 SP and a utility player that should allow them to play Camargo at 3b.
This was a very good trade that took advantage of the Dodgers luxury tax situation...a situation I’m sure AA was intimately familiar with.
I don’t think any other GM could have handled Kemp’s contract better. Big props to AA for this.
BedellBrave
It's OVER 5,000!
And it would seem for the long haul, trades that at least seem to benefit both teams help the GMs that make them. If I were a GM I'd more likely deal with a guy like AA...
Southcack77
Well-known member
Ultimately, the Oliveira/Kemp trade now looks like a decent trade for Atlanta. Ultimately, they were able in the end to shed obligations to oliveira in 2020 and 2019.
I've got us at $114,755,000 - but that includes potential bonuses and has Kazmir at $16 million until we get clarification.
The question (assuming they want to add as little as possible to the 2019 payroll) is how do you spend that money if that $130 million is actually available - WITHOUT moving any of our top prospects?
1.) Seymour and Sanchez to San Diego for Headley - adds $13 million (and creates a 40-Man Roster spot for him).
2.) Muller and Wilson to Cincinnati for Duvall - adds ~ $800,000 (if you give him a decent bump). DFA Garcia to create a roster spot.
3.) Take a flier on Sergio Romo for ~ $2 million. DFA Hursh to create a roster spot.