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Originally Posted by pgjocki
A lot of transactions and for cash, can you explain why and what your cash reserve was to end the season?
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Hey pgjocki,
Thanks for the question and thanks for checking out this thread.
Most of the trades we made were to cleanup some of the roster redundancy for the 2021 season.
Let's take
Brock Holt for example. We had quite a few options similar to his profile (not to mention he was a -0.8 WAR in only 34 games).
So I shopped him around and one player that caught my eye was
Matt Thaiss.
So we have an offer they would accept and what I like to do is see how much more they would be willing to give us.
If we can't squeeze another prospect out of the deal then I look to see how much cash they are willing to give us ($1.25m in this case).
Sometimes there is very little offers that come in and it becomes a "take what you can get" situation.
This is what happened with
Willie Calhoun. He wasn't part of our long term plans (below average defensively everywhere).
We were able to get a veteran bat on a MiLB deal (immediately released) and in this case only $75,000.
In some of my previous long term sims I would tend to overload on players in the upper minors. This would create roster management issues eventually when it came time for MiLB promotions.
Here is money available at the end of the season.
