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Jays acquire Joaquin Benoit from Mariners for Drew Storen + Cash

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Can someone explain the Mariners side of this to me? Assuming Storen refused his assignment, wasn't he about to become a free agent? Couldn't the Mariners have had a shot at Storen for league minimum? Why take on the Storen salary? The only money they are saving here is the league minimum it would have cost to sign Storen. Did they really want him so bad that they couldn't risk him possibly going to another team? Unless they were already planning to DFA Benoit and considered him a sunk cost or unless there was already an agreement in place before the Storen DFA this doesn't really make sense to me.

 

I imagine that they're exactly where the Jays were with Storen immediately preceding his DFA: they'd seen enough and were ready to tell him to GTFO. Must have been nobody else who wanted him.

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Soria's away numbers are horrible in 2016, FIP 5.40 and only striking out 6.24k/9

 

I honestly would have a short leash here, we dont need to replace one game blower with another IMO

 

What the f*** are you talking about?

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I imagine that they're exactly where the Jays were with Storen immediately preceding his DFA: they'd seen enough and were ready to tell him to GTFO. Must have been nobody else who wanted him.

 

It's certainly a challenge move, anyway you look at it.

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What the f*** are you talking about?

 

It was a pretty common Dogg trope on the old board to get players name mixed up. Seems like he's not even maintaining the pretense of a new identity anymore and slipping into hid old habits.

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Real life challenge trade!

 

I'd hardly call this a challenge trade, it's more like a one man's trash is another man's maybe not so trashy trash trade.

Atothe Vancouver Canadians

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I'd hardly call this a challenge trade, it's more like a one man's trash is another man's maybe not so trashy trash trade.

 

Would Pompey for profar count as that?

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Would Pompey for profar count as that?

 

No, that would just be a raping. Pompey is garbage. A classic example of a challenge trade would be John Danks for Brandon McCarthy. Both were young SP, top prospects with full control. Each team just preferred the guy they didn't have.

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I'd hardly call this a challenge trade, it's more like a one man's trash is another man's maybe not so trashy trash trade.

 

Still a challenge trade.

L54 Vancouver Canadians

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Come on the names are similar

 

Mistakes happen

 

The name is literally right in the title and you still managed to screw the pooch

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