WizardofOz1982
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I'd have to disagree. Generally when you see "plus cash" attached to a trade you are assuming a few million...but $250 million is a huge amount for any club to take on. The fact that the Marlins are getting one top 100 prospect in return is pretty amazing, let alone two plus a pretty decent everyday player who can hit around .300. I agree that the proposal doesn't look sexy in regards to player return but when "plus cash" means $250 million, it makes much more sense.
The Cardinals & Red Sox could easily propose a better deal in terms of prospects but the question is, are they willing to take on over $200 million of that contract?
Regardless, I still don't see how this trade makes sense for the Giants. Their projected 2018 team payroll is already north of $180 million and picking up one player, even someone of Stanton's status, isn't going to make them a contender. The player return doesn't make much sense for the Marlins but I can certainly understand them wanting to offload that contract.
The crazy thing is the Cardinals could propose a better trade with two prospects they don't even care about all that much plus Kolten Wong/Jedd Gyorko/etc. and it would be quite a bit better than the Giants proposal.
Beede would probably be something like the 8th or 9th best pitching prospect if he were a Cardinal. I doubt he's in the top 100 anymore either. He was 89 before last season and he was pretty bad last season.
Shaw isn't great either. Lots of guys like him that already have major league track records are looking for work right now (the Matt Adams, Adam Lind, etc. crowd). He wouldn't even be in the Cards' top 20.
The deal doesn't make sense from the money perspective for the Giants and Stanton doesn't make them a contender. I really don't understand it at all. I get that Stanton wants to play on the west coast which limits what the Marlins can do but they can always trade away other players to drop 50 million in salary. It's going to suck for him if he ends up the only star on a team that makes the Padres look like stars around the field.