Trade raped
- Thread starter ronpolk
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Houston says call their friends in Cleveland and compare. Cleveland gave up $231 million guaranteed to Deshaun Watson, $45 million signing bonus, 1st round picks in 2022 2023 2024, a 2022 4th round pick, 2023 3rd round pick, 4th round pick 2024, and he won't be available for the first 11 games this season. All of that for a guy already "accused" of 24 incidents involving massages when they made the trade. This one may eventually be worse than Bobby Bonilla Day depending on how available he is in the future and how long he is able to play
I dialed Houston to acquire the friends number…line was busy. We have a problem down there..
Yes!
Fly Redbirds Fly!
Montgomery has been great.
And, Albert is stroking at age 42.
I wish they could win it all this year with this being Albert, Molina and Wainwright’s last hooray.
Hoping we will get a stud pitcher back in Sept who’s been rehabbing. If he comes back strong watch out!
They are a fun team to watch now.
Fly Redbirds Fly!
Montgomery has been great.
And, Albert is stroking at age 42.
I wish they could win it all this year with this being Albert, Molina and Wainwright’s last hooray.
Hoping we will get a stud pitcher back in Sept who’s been rehabbing. If he comes back strong watch out!
They are a fun team to watch now.
Bobby Bonilla Day shouldn't be mentioned. It gets a lot of pub for being one of the first big deferral deals out there, but it worked out well for everyone, including the Mets. There are far, far, far worse deferred payment deals out there.
The Mets will ultimately pay him ~$30M+ (depends on present value of $1.9M and the additional 8% that he gets on top each year) when they only owed him $5.9M to begin with.
"But in his final stint with the Mets in 1999, he hit just .160 with 4 home runs and 18 RBIs over 60 games"
"In 2019 the Mets had 2 players on their roster that made less money than Bobby Bonilla did that year".
https://www.thesportster.com/baseball/top-20-worst-contracts-in-mlb-history/
"But in his final stint with the Mets in 1999, he hit just .160 with 4 home runs and 18 RBIs over 60 games"
"In 2019 the Mets had 2 players on their roster that made less money than Bobby Bonilla did that year".
https://www.thesportster.com/baseball/top-20-worst-contracts-in-mlb-history/
I doubt it. I think that’s an even trade on paper only because Dobbins is a year younger, but probably will be better for you. It’s going to be hard for any RB on the same team as Lamar Jackson to ever lead the league in rushing, rushing TD’s, or RB receptions / receiving yards. He caps the ceiling quite a bit….and you’re still gonna have Gus Edwards being involved too.
The Mets are paying him out of dividends from an investment they made at the time of the deferral. So there's no real impact to current baseball operations.
The bigger deal.....The Mets used that money they saved at the time to trade for Mike Hampton, who promptly teamed with Al Leiter to lead the Mets to a World Series appearance in 2000. And then when Hampton left as a free agent, they used the supplemental pick that they got for that to draft David Wright.
It worked out well for the Mets.
They clawed most of their money back from Madoff (the Wilpons), but the money they lost was tied to their real estate investments, not the baseball club.
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