According to Jon Heyman, the Cubs have traded David DeJesus to the Washington Nationals for a player to be named later. DeJesus spent a sizable amount of time on the DL this season, but in his year plus with the Cubs, he gave the Cubs a bit more than they paid for.
No word on whether there is money involved in the deal, but the Nationals now own a club option for $6.5 million on DeJesus next season. It's an option that will probably be exercised by the Nats.
cubs receive player to be named later for dejesus. @DannyKnoblerCBS had story 1st
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) August 19, 2013
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sitrick wrote:
I wouldn’t copy/paste the entire thing, but fair use is more than acceptable.
dmick89Quote Reply
sitrick wrote:
Cubs Den posted an interview this morning with Parks where he discussed Baez and others.
http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2013/08/talking-prospects-with-professor-parks-how-cubs-top-prospects-compare-with-the-some-of-the-best-in-the-game/
BerseliusQuote Reply
i’m also not crazy about this trade, pending the ptbnl announcement
GWQuote Reply
The noteworthy bit:
That interview at Cubs Den was great too. Excellent stuff.
sitrickQuote Reply
Is the PTBNL thing a waiver issue, or are we just getting back someone fairly crappy? Surprised they’d salary dump DDJ.
sitrickQuote Reply
@ sitrick:
I think ptbnl would have to clear waivers to be announced, but i’m not completely clear on the details.
GWQuote Reply
I gotta tell you, I don’t care. Not crazy about it? What’s David D going to be by the time this team can compete? Whole lotta nothing. What did I tell you guys about that koolaid? This team isn’t competing next year, and they need as high a draft pick as possible.
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
on the margins, losing more this year is a decent outcome, given the large cluster of bad teams near the bottom of the standings. on the whole, though, tanking in baseball is not all that productive. more brian bogusevic next year? blah…
GWQuote Reply
josh wrote:
I’m less concerned about this than about getting proper value for assets. DDJ is a known quantity and a productive major league regular having a good year with team control for next year. That’s a fairly valuable commodity…PTBNL’s tend to be not terribly valuable guys.
sitrickQuote Reply
I agree with josh.
Also, what the fuck is role 7?
Suburban kidQuote Reply
twitterverse is crushed by the loss of kim dejesus
GWQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
i think he uses “role” as a summation of talent on the scouting 2-8 (or 20-80) scale.
GWQuote Reply
Role 7 is Parks-speak for a 70 overall player grade on the 20-80 scouting scale. A 7 is basically a perennial all star.
sitrickQuote Reply
New Shit (I didn’t see this article in the queue when I wrote mine)
http://obstructedview.net/news-and-rumors/what-the-hell-cubs-trade-dejesus-to-nationals.html
MylesQuote Reply
@ sitrick:
My main counterargument is *shrug*.
My subcounterargument is that maybe the Cubes are harder up for money than we thought, or they think they have a bead on a young arm in the Nats org that they can steal away.
joshQuote Reply