July 24, 201015 yr With the way Davis is struggling I think the Marlins could extract someone like righty reliever Pedro Strop from the Rangers for Cantu. After all look at the haul the Rangers got for Callaspo. Rangers are in bankruptcy, bills being paid by MLB and they cannot add significant salary.
July 24, 201015 yr With the way Davis is struggling I think the Marlins could extract someone like righty reliever Pedro Strop from the Rangers for Cantu. After all look at the haul the Rangers got for Callaspo. Rangers are in bankruptcy, bills being paid by MLB and they cannot add significant salary. The Rangers will still be adding. They got the Mariners to pay Cliff Lee and the Giants to pay Bengie Molina. That's why they had to give up a lot of good prospects in those deals. It will be the same type of thing if they want Cantu. The Marlins will pay him for the right to get a prospect like Strop for him.
July 24, 201015 yr To some extent, if Cantu is the odd man out and it looks more and more like he is, the roster spot his departure creates plus the salary saved that can be allocated elsewhere are almost as important as the player compensation we get back. Will Carroll tweated a couple days ago that if the Marlins trade their players, they either need to take a contract back in return or pay our players salary, as part of the agreement with MLB and the union this past offseason. Which is unfortunate, because being able to save 3 mil this season to spend next year or what not would be awesome.
July 24, 201015 yr To some extent, if Cantu is the odd man out and it looks more and more like he is, the roster spot his departure creates plus the salary saved that can be allocated elsewhere are almost as important as the player compensation we get back. Will Carroll tweated a couple days ago that if the Marlins trade their players, they either need to take a contract back in return or pay our players salary, as part of the agreement with MLB and the union this past offseason. Which is unfortunate, because being able to save 3 mil this season to spend next year or what not would be awesome. That is so far-fetched and the source is such an infamous Marlins-hater I suspect it's totally without credibility. But that's just my opinion. Why would Will Carroll of all people know this and no one else in the sports media? You would think Heyman or Olney or Stark or Rosenthal would jump all this, especially Heyman who made it his personal mission to derail the Marlins getting a stadium of their own, or Gammons or Kurkjian who have the deepest connections in the game on every side (owners, the league itself and the union), once it was out there would have blown the story up, but the absence of any corroboration of something tweeted from a frequently untrustworthy site like Baseball Prospectus doesn't pass the smell test. I admit I missed the tweet, I wish I read it and the context of it if he followed up on their site, I really hadn't heard anything about it until you were kind enough to post it just now. Personally I'd be more comfortable seeing some more reputable reporter like the ones I mentioned (and no I don't mean Barry Jackson or a Dave Hyde lol) airing this out, but it certainly is something to consider even if there's a germ of truth to it.
July 25, 201015 yr Apparently you haven't seen how bad Chris Davis is, Texas really does need Cantu and he'll be more serviceable as a platoon 1st baseman then everyday 3rd baseman.
July 25, 201015 yr Well the dealine is only one more week so I'm pretty sure if a trade is gonna happen it'll be sooner then later.
July 25, 201015 yr Apparently you haven't seen how bad Chris Davis is, Texas really does need Cantu and he'll be more serviceable as a platoon 1st baseman then everyday 3rd baseman. If we can rob another team in a Jorge Cantu trade, why not? I don't care if we get a couple of cases of Gatorade for him at this point. He's really dead weight on the team right now, defensively and offensively. Bring up Morrison, shift some people around.
July 25, 201015 yr In the situation Texas is in we could nab a C prospect or two and if anything an MLB ready player, either fielder or bullpen arm.
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