Twins Roster Moves: Zack Weiss In, Jordan Balazovic Out, Santana and Jackson Official

[ashbury]

The Twins preferred Carlos Santana to Bubba. 

The Reds preferred Bubba to Balazovic.  That's gotta sting a little, to our pitcher.

[jorgenswest]

23 minutes ago, ashbury said:

The Twins preferred Carlos Santana to Bubba. 

The Reds preferred Bubba to Balazovic.  That's gotta sting a little, to our pitcher.

The Reds preferred Bubba over myriads of others they could have put on the roster including Blake Snell and the recently claimed Jordan Groshans. They may simply have thought Bubba has a better chance of making it through or needed to try to get some organizational depth in the OF. The Reds have already DfA’d Thompson once this off-season.

Getting DFA’d had to sting. Going unclaimed had to sting. That names of the players like Thompson and Groshans that were among those claimed while he was on waivers wouldn’t add to it. Would that mean he would somehow have less sting when they are DFA’d again before the season starts?

This brings me to a more serious note. It can’t be helpful to a player’s career or family to be moved through so many waiver cycles. I have suggested the remedy is to limit the DFA’s. That probably wouldn’t go so I am going to put something in the waiver player’s pocketbook. As it stands I think the Twins paid a $50000 waiver fee to the Yankees and were paid back the $5000 by the Reds. Is that correct? I am not sure if the off-season or Thompson’s options status matters here.

I assume there is money involved. Let’s give it to the player. Too much. Let’s give them at least half. Maybe the cycle of claiming a player with plan to DFA would lessen. That would benefit the player by landing him on a team that will really give him an opportunity.

[nicksaviking]

I had forgotten about the time Balazovic broke his jaw in a fight; it was really the only time I heard Baldelli talk about one of his players in a dismissive manner. 

Maybe it was overblown or maybe he's a new person, but maybe he has a personality that wasn't worth the trouble.

[Hawkeye Bean Counter]

1 hour ago, jorgenswest said:

The Reds preferred Bubba over myriads of others they could have put on the roster including Blake Snell and the recently claimed Jordan Groshans. They may simply have thought Bubba has a better chance of making it through or needed to try to get some organizational depth in the OF. The Reds have already DfA’d Thompson once this off-season.

Getting DFA’d had to sting. Going unclaimed had to sting. That names of the players like Thompson and Groshans that were among those claimed while he was on waivers wouldn’t add to it. Would that mean he would somehow have less sting when they are DFA’d again before the season starts?

This brings me to a more serious note. It can’t be helpful to a player’s career or family to be moved through so many waiver cycles. I have suggested the remedy is to limit the DFA’s. That probably wouldn’t go so I am going to put something in the waiver player’s pocketbook. As it stands I think the Twins paid a $50000 waiver fee to the Yankees and were paid back the $5000 by the Reds. Is that correct? I am not sure if the off-season or Thompson’s options status matters here.

I assume there is money involved. Let’s give it to the player. Too much. Let’s give them at least half. Maybe the cycle of claiming a player with plan to DFA would lessen. That would benefit the player by landing him on a team that will really give him an opportunity.

No they didn't prefer Bubba over a Blake Snell (Only Balazovic and Duarte) not anyone else,  Bubba will likely again be waived and the process will only stop when no one else claims him.  The issue will be that unlike the Twins being able to pass through now 3 questionable players onto triple AAA because Rosters are full,  they all will open up with 60 day designations and it will be much more difficult to pass through a player in 2 days.    

[jorgenswest]

4 hours ago, Hawkeye Bean Counter said:

No they didn't prefer Bubba over a Blake Snell (Only Balazovic and Duarte) not anyone else,  Bubba will likely again be waived and the process will only stop when no one else claims him.  The issue will be that unlike the Twins being able to pass through now 3 questionable players onto triple AAA because Rosters are full,  they all will open up with 60 day designations and it will be much more difficult to pass through a player in 2 days.    

Agree. I should have said this as clearly.