Interesting that was their R5 pick. So I guess he's getting an MLB spot.
Apparently. Maybe they had some intel on another team? It was a guy we picked in the 10th round so I'm not going to sweat it.
Or they really wanted him and the Mets snagged him first, so Breslow got aggressive quickly to get his man.
That would be my best guess (or they had intel the 10th team would take him or something), but not sure.
https://rumbunter.com/posts/pittsburgh-pirates-five-potential-rule-5-draft-picks-to-consider-asa-lacy
Seems unlikely the Mets would pick him for themselves and then agree that quickly to swap him for such a middling draft pick?
Not really, it's generally a pain in the ass carrying a rule 5 guy on the roster all year if you care at all about winning games. This way NYM gets a player and don't have to worry about keeping him on the roster, he's theirs no matter what.
They don’t have to carry him on the major league roster unlike Slaten.
It's a minor move if Slaten doesn't stick and goes back to the Rangers.
It's still usually the 26th man, and often they don't even survive spring training. I agree with 'minor move'.
Yea this is a move Bloom simply doesn’t make. Breslow thinks the upside is worth the risk of giving up a player for what could be nothing.
Really? What if he sucks and they just send him back to the Rangers and free up the roster spot again? It cost them Ryan Ammons. He signed for $50k in the tenth round last year, $118k below slot. I'd say it's pretty minor.
I'm still a Bloom guy, to be honest, but I think this is a fair criticism. He certainly did hate to gamble on surrendering value. No idea if this move will work, but I like that Breslow is in there being aggressive on the margins.
I agree.
Who brought the wet blanket...?
If you acquire their rights from their original team, that's true. Not when you acquire them from the team that drafted him.
As I just posted in the SP thread, I think these moves are a prelude to a trade, moving some of these assets to land a big fish.
All of that was his first go-round in AA, which he then cut way back on in 2023 (mix of AA-AAA). Also an outlier from his prior experiences in the minors and college, when he was in the 3-4 bb/9 range. So the evidence generally points to 2022 being the true outlier, rather than his bounce-back control in 2023. You never know though.
If that were the case, we'd see a lot more teams conspiring to draft and trade players for each other to circumvent the roster requirements.
You really don't want to play minor suit chords or major suit chords at the same time.
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/12/red-sox-trade-for-rule-5-reliever-who-will-compete-for-bullpen-spot-in-spring.html
I think we’re going to have to get used to it, but in this case I’ll take it anyway because it means they acquired a lot of talent from other leading teams (talking development in this case not referring to players) by spending what I have to assume was a metric f-ton of money. Talk all the nonsense you want if you’re spraying cash along with it.
