
Originally Posted by
Rylinkus
I was saying the Royals would have no reason to take Tex. Why would they do the second trade? They have a glut of guys who can play 1st, which is why they are looking to trade one.
Secondly, it won't get rid of his contract. If we trade a guy like Tex we're gonna end up paying for the lion's share of the money he's owed. Basically we're getting rid of the player, not the contract.
EXACTLY. If we trade Arod we will, most likely, have to pay the majority of his contract. And THEN we need to pay another 3rd baseman to fill the hole we opened up. So we probably end up spending more money than we do now. And we probably also have a worse 3rd baseman. Can someone give an actual viable way to trade ARod that makes sense? I doubt it.