The simple answer to this question is that he does not have any trade value, but simple isn't good enough. That's especially true when you're talking about a player who is still owed $43.5 million through the end of 2014. The Cubs tried hard this offseason to find some team interested in taking him and didn't have much luck. We don't know what the Cubs were really willing to pay and we don't know what they would then have accepted so we don't really know anything other than the Cubs looked into trading Alfonso Soriano and were unable to find an offer they'd accept.
What we want to do is figure out how much Soriano is expected to be worth over the final 15.5 months of his contract. That's easy enough. We can use the rest of season ZiPS to get a good idea of what's expected from him this year and we can adjust accordingly for his age thereafter. ZiPS projects 323 plate appearances the rest of the way, a .329 wOBA and 1.2 WAR. Over 550 plate appe...
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June 12, 2012
This guy has a penchant for getting his hits when the team is either a) out of the game , OR, b) when they are way up . . .
Look, he fooled the Cubs , how hard has that been the last 100+ years ?
Soriano to bucs you pick up his contract we will give you those bricks