Seems to line up.
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Seems to line up.
nsacpi
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We're paying Melancon about 5M this year and 14M next. Kimbrel would have taken more. Significantly more. He got this from the Cubs: 10M this year and 16 next, plus the third year.
We don't know how much money AA could have spent this year also if he still has some left. I thought Keuchel was maxing out the credit card and he was just giving fan service that he tried to sign both.
What I was referring to was.next year. The 16 mill vs 14 mill Melancon is getting isn't that big of a dent.
And yes, the Cubs giving a third year certainly pushed them over the finish line since AA only wanted to give a 2 year offer.
I'm thinking AA had enough 2019 cash to give CK $10M-$15M for 2019, and now that cash is being spread out over 2019 and 2020 towards Melancon.
When the Cubs came in with 3 years, they won the bidding and AA wasn't going to touch that price...for good reason.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The Braves went “above and beyond” their payroll budget for this season to remake their bullpen at the trade deadline, general manager Alex Anthopoulos said.
“We’re going to go a pretty significant chunk over our allocated budget for the current year to make these deals,” Anthopoulos said.
He said Braves chairman Terry McGuirk “gave me the approval very fast to do that, (and) I’m certainly grateful we were able to do that again, two years in a row.”
https://www.ajc.com/sports/baseball...-trades-for-relievers/JrvA4KwOJhPlGhoH2KVAwJ/
It's possible of course that McGuirk would have also approved the deal with Kimbrel. But its worth keeping in mind the $7M they took on this week went "above and beyond" budget.
