Players who have accrued 10 years of Major League service time and spent the past five consecutive years with the same team are awarded 10-and-5 rights. Under these circumstances, a player can veto any trade scenario that is proposed. 10-and-5 Rights (mlb.com) Ryan Pressly I am going to guess here ... Pressly signed his last Astros contract when he did not have 10-and-5 rights (8 years in MLB and 4 years with the Astros). Pressly inserted 10-and-5 language in that contract which covered the first two years of the contract. After the first two years of the contract, Pressly has legit 10-and-5 rights, which is exactly where we are rn. Pressly is entering the third and last year of his contract.
For the “why would you limit Yordan to 130 games?!?!” crowd: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025...ee-injury-good-to-go-for-spring-training.html Because the guy has chronic knee problems and is pretty much always a tweak away from needing season-ending surgery. You don’t let a guy like that who is that important to your offense get worn down.
Pressly has the final call. He isn’t likely to get an extension from the Cubs. He has to decide if he wants to stay in Houston or go to a new opportunity in Chicago for a year. Personally I get why he doesn’t want to leave and uproot his family - I wouldn’t either. However he also has to realize it was less than a year ago where he was so frustrated that he asked for a trade. No idea what the Astros end up doing with the money at this point if they make the deal. Polanco? Bregman? Arenado? Wait until the deadline and see if they want to make a bigger deal? I wouldn’t rule out Arenado either. Shorter deal than Bregman. The Astros added Walker since he blocked the trade.
He played 147 games last season and now it comes out he was worn down and hobbled for the playoffs and some thought he’d need surgery. (He may still end up needing surgery.)
If the dude’s mom is on the internet talking about “if the Astros put him back in the closer position”, which everyone knows is not happening, it sure seems like Pressly is gonna approve the trade.
That would have been all well and good in 2019 when this team had Altuve, Correa, and Springer in their primes, when if you squinted you woukd sweat Bregman was Mike Schmidt, and when Tucker was being called Ted Williams II and ready to be called up. In 2025, Yordan playing less than 140 games could realistically cost the team a playoff spot. There is simply that little margin of error. Yordan needs to be protected and DHing him helps, but he is just as likely to get hurt running the bases. THAT is what we have seen. I get that fewer games is how you accomplish that, buy this team can't afford to sit their best player. The best thing that can happen is that 3 or more of: Meyers, Chas, Trammell, Dezenzo, Whitcomb, Leon, Corona, and Melton make the job to productive, nearly everyday MLB starter. Unless another player is brought in. Bregman would cause seriius discussions about how much Yordan plays LF because w/ 3 everyday corner infielders, DH becomes an issue. Right now, putting Yordan in LF to get one of the other players in the lineup at DH doesn't move the needle because most can play LF and aren't a significant step back from Singleton or Caratini. It's baffling that he has never hit 40 HR- that's what he needs- more HR and fewer leg doubles.
I didn't read anything in that article about him being worn down - he was hurt. And we all saw the injury happen on a funky slide into 2b.
I’m aware salaries are prorated for CBT calculations. If a player spends four months with your team, you take the daily amount he earns and multiply it by the number of days on the roster. This is why in MLB and other professional sports leagues, when teams acquire players from other teams midseason, the details of the trade often include how much salary is owed to the player for the rest of the season. If the Astros were desperate to move Ryan Pressly before the season to ensure they had CBT wiggle room, there would have been much more urgency to get trade parameters agreed to before January 24. At a minimum, they would have wanted to explore the free agent reliever market because their bullpen after Josh Hader and Bryan Abreu is very thin on experience. They also were interested in both Santander and Profar and signing either player would have increased the urgency to move Pressly’s 14 million for pure salary relief. Plus, according to @Nook , Pressly is the one who requested a trade. They signed Christian Walker and traded Tucker for Isaac Paredes in mid December, and I’m sure the Astros’ front office had projections showing what arbitration salaries could look like. If they didn’t have other plans to allocate Pressly’s money, I don’t think his trade talks accelerate like they did yesterday.
Yeah U mean like any other day? He gets grief all day from opposing fans. We can't worry about what some dumb ass fans think.
Pressly got done wrong by Crane and co. He was nails in the post-season and did not deserve to be replaced by Hader, who is a gas can and a terrible signing. I don't blame Pressly for being upset.
Yeah, 147 games is gruesome. Yordan played 53 games in LF last year. I suspect that if Yordan only DH-ed last year that he would have been healthy (but perhaps unhappy) as the playoffs started.
True. I think the main thing there is that the Indians were able to leverage their international bonus pool money since the Blue Jays were desperate to sign Sasaki, a generational pitching prospect. I'd hate to give away anyone of value to salary dump Montero. Why else would a small market team with low payroll add $11M of dead weight?
We just saw what happened when we didn’t get a bye. And like it or not, there’s a good chance the Rangers are going to be right there with us battling for the division this season.
