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Alex Rios Claimed On Waivers, Trade Next?

By Ben Nicholson-Smith [August 7 at 2:52pm CST]

ESPN.com's Buster Olney hears that Alex Rios has been claimed on waivers by an unknown team. The Blue Jays now have three choices:

 

They can let the claiming team have Rios and the $60MM-plus remaining on his contract.

They can pull him back from waivers and keep him.

They can work out a deal with the claiming team.

One executive calls this an "incredible opportunity" for the Blue Jays to shed payroll.

 

So basically, whoever claimed him has to take him and his contract if the Jays choose? I could see it being the Mets, Tigers, Giants, Yankees, or Red Sox.

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In my opinion, this has Mets written all over it.

 

Born: Feb 18, 1981 - Coffee, AL

 

Alabama is certainly not a hispanic country.

 

No, but just in the Motgomery/Prattville/Millbrook/Wetumpka area that is something like 72,549 Mexican resturants. Nonetheless there is a healthy population of hispanics in Alabama.

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Query: would you rather have Rios or Milton Bradley? What if the Cubs have claimed him and the deal is Rios for Bradley? That would save money for the Jays, no?

 

EDIT: Here's Rios' deal:

 

09:$5.9M, 10:$9.7M, 11:$12M, 12:$12M, 13:$12.5M, 14:$12.5M, 15:$13.5M club option ($1M buyout)

 

full no-trade clause, 2009-10

 

Obviously he has the NTC, but I strongly suspect he'd waive it to be with a contender.

 

 

Cubs send Bradley and a bit of cash to Jays for Rios. Jays spend $300k more in 2010, but save $2 million in 2011 and then Bradley comes off the books. The Cubs get a wash this season and next, after which Rios costs $2 million more than Bradley would have.

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Query: would you rather have Rios or Milton Bradley? What if the Cubs have claimed him and the deal is Rios for Bradley? That would save money for the Jays, no?

 

EDIT: Here's Rios' deal:

 

09:$5.9M, 10:$9.7M, 11:$12M, 12:$12M, 13:$12.5M, 14:$12.5M, 15:$13.5M club option ($1M buyout)

 

full no-trade clause, 2009-10

 

Obviously he has the NTC, but I strongly suspect he'd waive it to be with a contender.

 

Why would the Blue Jays agree to take a bad contract back? They can just unload Rios whole contract onto the team that made the claim.

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Query: would you rather have Rios or Milton Bradley? What if the Cubs have claimed him and the deal is Rios for Bradley? That would save money for the Jays, no?

 

Why would the Blue Jays do that deal. They would be better off letting the Cubs (in this case) take Rios off of their hands and take nothing back in return. They'll have all the cash and could spend whatever they want next year on a free agent or a trade.

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Query: would you rather have Rios or Milton Bradley? What if the Cubs have claimed him and the deal is Rios for Bradley? That would save money for the Jays, no?

 

EDIT: Here's Rios' deal:

 

09:$5.9M, 10:$9.7M, 11:$12M, 12:$12M, 13:$12.5M, 14:$12.5M, 15:$13.5M club option ($1M buyout)

 

full no-trade clause, 2009-10

 

Obviously he has the NTC, but I strongly suspect he'd waive it to be with a contender.

 

Why would the Blue Jays agree to take a bad contract back? They can just unload Rios whole contract onto the team that made the claim.

 

See above. Just thinking aloud. Bradley can still be productive at DH.

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Query: would you rather have Rios or Milton Bradley? What if the Cubs have claimed him and the deal is Rios for Bradley? That would save money for the Jays, no?

 

EDIT: Here's Rios' deal:

 

09:$5.9M, 10:$9.7M, 11:$12M, 12:$12M, 13:$12.5M, 14:$12.5M, 15:$13.5M club option ($1M buyout)

 

full no-trade clause, 2009-10

 

Obviously he has the NTC, but I strongly suspect he'd waive it to be with a contender.

 

Why would the Blue Jays agree to take a bad contract back? They can just unload Rios whole contract onto the team that made the claim.

 

Even if Rios has a NTC?

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7:58pm: John Fay of The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that "someone high in the front office" confirms that the Reds did not claim Rios.

 

6:16pm: Henry Schulman of The SF Chronicle says that vice president of baseball operations Bobby Evans "hinted strongly" that the Giants are not the team that claimed Rios.

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