June 11, 20241 yr 8 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2023/12/11/stassi-costs-white-sox-740-000-minimum-in-2024-with-braves-sending-chicago-6-26-million/71883394007/ The way I'm reading this is $740,000 this year and it LOOKS like they're on the hook for the $500,000 buyut. $1,240,000 wasted that could have easily gone to improving the front office/analytics/modern technology. 24:$7M, 25:$7.5M club option ($500,000 buyout) placed on restricted list 9/2/23 (Angels will not pay salary for last 30 days of season, saving $1,129,032) acquired by Atlanta in trade from LA Angels 12/8/23 acquired by Chicago White Sox in trade from Atlanta 12/9/23 (Braves pay White Sox $6.26M as part of the deal, with White Sox responsible for $740,000 of Stassi’s 2024 salary) His 1.25 million not to play is still 1.7 WAR more productive than Moldy for $4 million.
June 11, 20241 yr 11 minutes ago, caulfield12 said: Not exactly, see details in my post here just now. If you look at the total fWAR return on the 5 Braves' players for Bummer and then Stassi, it's going to definitely end up as a negative net fWAR for XYZ amount of money, whatever the total for Lopez, Soroka, Shuster, and Shewmake is. All up to Gowens (whatever his name is) in the minors to make something out of this deal, positively. Why just Gowens? Isn’t Shuster under control for another 5 years?
June 11, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said: Why just Gowens? Isn’t Shuster under control for another 5 years? Well, sure...he's probably better than Tim Hill, but let's first see how he does in high pressure roles or as a starter. If the Braves were satisfied with him, they wouldn't have traded for Aaron Bummer and taken on that salary package in the first place. As Shuster would have been much cheaper to employ.
June 11, 20241 yr Just now, caulfield12 said: Well, sure...he's probably better than Tim Hill, but let's first see how he does in high pressure roles or as a starter. If the Braves were satisfied with him, they wouldn't have traded for Aaron Bummer and taken on that salary package in the first place. As Shuster would have been much cheaper to employ. He’s basically performed at the same level as Bummer this season but he’s younger, cheaper, and under control for much longer. He seems fine as a lefty long reliever/spot starter.
June 11, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, caulfield12 said: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2023/12/11/stassi-costs-white-sox-740-000-minimum-in-2024-with-braves-sending-chicago-6-26-million/71883394007/ The way I'm reading this is $740,000 this year and it LOOKS like they're on the hook for the $500,000 buyut. $1,240,000 wasted that could have easily gone to improving the front office/analytics/modern technology. 24:$7M, 25:$7.5M club option ($500,000 buyout) placed on restricted list 9/2/23 (Angels will not pay salary for last 30 days of season, saving $1,129,032) acquired by Atlanta in trade from LA Angels 12/8/23 acquired by Chicago White Sox in trade from Atlanta 12/9/23 (Braves pay White Sox $6.26M as part of the deal, with White Sox responsible for $740,000 of Stassi’s 2024 salary) That's a lot of money relatively speaking given he never played an inning and as you said it could have gone to use elsewhere.
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