If the season ended today then yes I would just lock him up for the year for $6m through arby. Give him the every day job and if it fails then there seems to always be a 1B rental available in July. I think you might be able to release him and re sign him for maybe $3m to $5m but a team could definitely swoop in and try to do a 2 years $12m contract or more so why risk it.
I don’t even care that the MLB allows these minor IL trips. It’s a long season and 26 man rosters are small. Let them send a guy down for 10 days if he’s nicked up. As long as teams aren’t signing guys for $10m just to IL stash them all year, just let it go, let teams keep their guys healthy especially for the playoffs.
I'm no conspiracy theorist but this is probably just load management. Probably a minor injury that he could pitch through if it was the playoffs but unnecessary against WAS.
One of the small market playbooks is to hoard prospects until you get a window, then sell them for the expensive rentals you can’t afford to sign in FA (CC Sabathia).
I can't decide if it's a good thing or a bad thing but we would have all 3 OF spots locked down for 3 years. No prospects, FAs, platoons, anything unless there was an injury.
So they used all of the budget but not the 5% overage? If I'm reading that correctly, that's pretty good. Ideally yes they would use the 5% but that's kinda like threading the needle, very difficult to do while still being aggressive.
They probably wanted to keep him for SP depth. Or maybe they have him marked for trade talks and don't want to risk talking his value if he moves to BP and gets blown up once or twice.
Mis
Priester
Patrick
Gasser
That's 4/5th of a rotation and it assumes Peralta and Woody are both gone. Then we still have Hall, Ashby, Myers, Henderson. So I don't really mind trading a SP as long as they pick the right guy to send out the door.
Report that the Reds are looking to add a middle of the order bat. Trading for Suarez would be the most Reds thing ever, I hope he goes there if not us.
I'm not too attached to Boeve or Myers. Myers would be nice depth to keep next year but he's probably the odd man out of the 5 man even if we lose all our vets.