Cubs aquire Ryan Brasier

[Jason Ross]

4 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

Very possible. And the deal, on it’s own, is a good move by Jed. Why pay $10M+ for Robertson when you can get another guy for much less that you like. 

Yeah, on it's own it's a perfectly fine deal. I like Braiser in a vacuum. I do think there's an interesting bit on price/timing/etc as well. It seems unlikely that the Cubs are going to save $30m under the LT on the whole. Whether it's a Bregman play, saving for a trade of a SP and a bench bat, or even saving for a possible Tucker extension, I do think that most of that money is going somewhere. Should be a fun experiment to see where.

[Rcal10]

8 minutes ago, 1908_Cubs said:

Yeah, on it's own it's a perfectly fine deal. I like Braiser in a vacuum. I do think there's an interesting bit on price/timing/etc as well. It seems unlikely that the Cubs are going to save $30m under the LT on the whole. Whether it's a Bregman play, saving for a trade of a SP and a bench bat, or even saving for a possible Tucker extension, I do think that most of that money is going somewhere. Should be a fun experiment to see where.

The Tucker extension is an interesting twist. Yes, if they did it to include this year his salary for LT purposes that woukd be over $30M. But that would lower his LT implications the entire contract, by a little. That would be interesting. Maybe even a PCA extension. Guess there are ways to use the money. 

[thawv]

12 hours ago, JD94 said:

Looks like the Cubs are paying $2.8M of Brasier’s contract

Do you have a source or link for this?  Thanks!