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If you're trying to win you probably would. And my assumption is you'd try to get a lower cost player with more than one year of control at a position of need. Else why would you need to throw in that surplus value.

I guess, but do people think Baldwin is going to be the centerpiece of a WS team after the current core is gone? I don't see the timing working out for keeping him to make much sense.

That's his obvious role for about four years.

Juice.

You absolutely can trade a backup catcher IMO.

I think a possible backup catcher could be moved for much less than a top 10 player.

To me it seems the most likely result is that Acuña is still a really good player and the chance he just sucks now forever is about 3%.

That's interesting to me and I didn't know that. I would have assumed they would be taxed in their state of residence regardless as it's a salary rather than a per diem or single event contract. Is that specific to professional athletes?

Pretty rare that any team solves two position problems in one trade.

I'm not sure "losing Travis to FA" is the correct frame to the Braves declining a team option.

Also, while the risk of Soto falling apart for whatever reason is tremendous, that's present whether there is an opt out or not. While it is certainly to the player's favor to have the opt out to get more money or more years or just change scenery, it should be a minor concern for the team...

I think the back end of that deal is so far away it effectively doesn't matter. I wouldn't have a problem with it, but I can't imagine they would choose to do it.

Didn't Ted Turner negotiate it with himself?

How often did Snit DH D'Arnaud? I'm not sure, I lost the Braves broadcast into the season over the ABC holdout.

Not sure a backup catcher is the best use of that capital.

The GM bad mouthed Montgomery so hard it's hard to imagine that you'd need to give anything of value. Maybe they would pay you. The As got no return at all for Murphy.

I don't quite understand why the Angels assigned surplus value to Soler.

Thanks for the explanations. I learned something.

Could you explain why it would be a significant tax hit? I think it might be a year of results too soon but wouldn't think tax hit would be much.

Andruw never learned to lay off that pitch.