Trade Made!
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Traded 31-year-old shortstop C. Guzman and $77,000 in cash to the Baltimore Orioles, getting 31-year-old reliever D. Baez, 33-year-old second baseman R. Freel, 22-year-old minor league second baseman R. Adams and 26-year-old minor league left fielder P. Figueroa in return.
Why did we do this?
We want Lillibridge to be the shortstop and Guzman is making way more than he is worth to us. So instead of carrying his payroll for next year we decided to accept two bad payroll situations that would end at the end of this year in Baez and Freel.
So instead of 16 million over the next two years, we will take on 9.5 million this year and this year alone. As well bringing on a couple of prospects to boot.
Orioles are making a fight to be competitive in the AL East, and Guzman is an improvement over Robert Andino and Guzman will fit in Baltimore.
We lost some fan interest as well, but we think it's worth it to free up the cap and get this rebuilding ship going.
We also had to send $77,000 dollars to make sure the deal fit into their budget.
Freel will fit into managements scheme of super utility player.
