Cardinals / Rangers

[St. Louis GM (Bert)]

Cardinals Trade : 
OF Won-Bin Cho (Cardinals : 1st) $0.3 - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=cho---001won
OF Carlos D. Rodriguez (Brewers : 1st, DOB 12/7/00) $0.3 - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=rodrig026car
RHP Ryan Fernandez (Cardinals : 1st) $0.3 - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=fernan000rya

Rangers Trade :
SP Yu Darvish (Padres : 2024+) $5.4

Cap Change :
Cardinals +$4.5
Rangers -$4.5

Rodriguez Acquired - mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/thread/3391/cardinals-brewers
Fernandez Acquired - Unprotected / Rule 5 Draft
Darvish Acquired - mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/thread/7503/white-sox-rangers

After months of probably annoying the crap out of Stephen, it's finally done. We've agreed to a trade, definitely not the one I would have predicted but here it is. Super straight forward, I'm after more SP and I've probably stripped the market of players I can get with what assets I had / have. I've definitely got this one marked for down the road, I expect Cho to get a decent if not substantial ranking boost after wrecking Palm Beach last year and Fernandez might burn me as a bullpen arm I should have kept. 2024 blaze of glory here I come! ANTBOL.

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Rangers accept. Darvish dropped.

These trade discussions started in a very different place long long ago and probably winded their way through 15+ different players, none of which I think are on either roster any longer. We needed to get one done before there was nothing left.
I've had Darvish on the block for a while now, and this is the best offer I was able to find.

Thanks Bert


Cho protected here: mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/post/51460/thread
Fernandez protected here: mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/post/51866/thread

[Brewers GM (Bill)]

Approve 1-0

[D'backs GM (Mo)]

Please change Carlos D. Rodriguez name to --> Carlos Rodriguez

The added D. seems unnecessary to me as its not on Fantrax and not on his baseball reference profile.

Approval will come after the update.

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

He is identified with the middle initial D on Fangraphs:
www.fangraphs.com/players/carlos-rodriguez/sa3005478/stats?position=OF
He also has the middle initial D on milb.com:
www.milb.com/player/carlos-d-rodriguez-677578

[Brewers GM (Bill)]

Guess I'll just chime in since I was fine approving. There are multiple Carlos Rodriguez's in the real-life Brewer system and both are ranked. There was confusion at one point since there have been a few Brewer managers in this league since the above linked trade. When I came back aboard, this Carlos Rodriguez was listed as protected on the roster when he should not have been. I think the addition of the middle initial is justified in this case. Most sites use the middle initial to differentiate between Carlos D and Carlos F at this point.

[D'backs GM (Mo)]

Thanks Bill & Steph

I think using the Fangraphs's link instead of the Baseball Reference page is justified here to avoid confusion.

Approve 2-0

[Marlins GM (Dan)]

Approve 3-0

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Updated

[St. Louis GM (Bert)]

Rosters Updated

Looks like it was resolved, but I decided on some overkill because there are SO MANY Carlos Rodriguez out there and as Bill noted there were more than one with the Brewers. I did the middle initial and the DOB just to try and make it more obvious.