Rays DFA Dickerson and trade Odorizzi to the Twins

[Moonlight J]

[fuhrdog]

https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/965070462987456512

Somebody should have beat that offer.

[BigJonEmpire]

The Dickerson move is confusing. They dump his salary by either trading him or letting him clear waivers. But it seems hard to believe they couldn't extract at least another Palacios-level prospect from someone. I doubt they can get even that much after showing their hand with the designation. The Twins, Red Sox, maybe even the Giants, Braves or Marlins seems like east targets for a trade.

[Moonlight J]

The DFA forces teams to lineup for him and offer up something (expecting something not on 40 man, although they have a roster spot open). If a team doesn't claim him, and he clears waivers, Rays could send him to Durham. If Dickerson refuses that, he then forfeits his salary and becomes a free agent because he doesn't yet have the service time to refuse an assignment and keep his money.

[Ken]

Hard to imagine that he would get through waivers

[BigJonEmpire]

The DFA forces teams to lineup for him and offer up something (expecting something not on 40 man, although they have a roster spot open). If a team doesn't claim him, and he clears waivers, Rays could send him to Durham. If Dickerson refuses that, he then forfeits his salary and becomes a free agent because he doesn't yet have the service time to refuse an assignment and keep his money.

But why? Why not dump the arb salaries of someone less useful like Miller or Hechevaria???

[chancellor]

Hard to imagine that he would get through waivers

A 29-year old, controlled player who’s proven he can hit for power in Tampa Bay? Yup.

[Moonlight J]

But why? Why not dump the arb salaries of someone less useful like Miller or Hechevaria???

The bigger question was why was Hechevarria even offered arb? The answer is because they're always trying to sqeeze water from a rock and won't call up Adames until Super 2. A serious org would have done that and let Hechevarria go and find something cheap as an insurance plan incase the kid faltered.

Miller I get keeping, but I don't know if either guy would be claimed on waivers at the moment. One is decent glove and no bat and the other is coming off a major injury and can't play anywhere in the field.

[mjl]

yeah, I think the risk with Miller or Hech is that they might just take their salary down to AAA.

[cleo]

Any thoughts on Odorizzi for this year? I picked him up late last season and I recall him doing very well in the last 4 -5 weeks of the season. I was planning to protect him at $7 for my 12 team AL only league and will now for sure as his chances to be traded to the NL during this season has now gone down a considerable amount.

Now in Minn, I expect to see a slight bounce back from his fy17 totals. Any other thoughts on him?

[chancellor]

Any thoughts on Odorizzi for this year? I picked him up late last season and I recall him doing very well in the last 4 -5 weeks of the season. I was planning to protect him at $7 for my 12 team AL only league and will now for sure as his chances to be traded to the NL during this season has now gone down a considerable amount.

Now in Minn, I expect to see a slight bounce back from his fy17 totals. Any other thoughts on him?

I'd keep him for $7 in a 12-team AL only. That said, he comes with risk. His second half walk rate tanked, and his FB% jumped a lot. He got away with it to a large degree due to a very, very favorable BABIP in the second half. But, I like the Twins up-the-middle defense, and certainly, having Buxton in the OF gives him a lot of forgiveness for a high FB rate.

[onejayhawk]

Dickerson traded to the Pirates for a bowl of cold oatmeal and a used lemon slice (Daniel Hudson and A ball IF Tristan Gray).

J