Neat column from Dustin Parkes today, wondering if -- given the obstacle Rafael Soriano’s type-A status presents for him signing with a good team -- he could be signed by a bad one that doesn’t have to surrender a pick, and could then, in turn, be traded to a contender. Dustin goes back a couple years and quotes Rob Manfred who says that, yeah, that could probably happen.
Neat. At least for now. If it happened, however, it would probably make a lot of people nervous (i.e. the union, agents, teams letting free agents walk). As if they weren’t already nervous about free agent compensation anyway.
And if it did happen with Soriano, it would be the second time in as many years that he’d take his new contract with him to a new team, as you’ll recall that he unexpectedly accepted arbitration from the Braves last year, necessitating a trade to Tampa Bay. Not quite the same as a sign-and-trade, but it kinda rhymes.
