Guardians / Astros trade 1/9/26 3:53P

[jschwab]

The Hosuton Astros agree to send

CI,MI   Casey Schmitt   2026   $ 0.5

to the Cleveland Guardians for:

CI,OF   Luke Raley   2029   $ 13.0    $ 13.0    $ 13.0    $ 13.0

Cleveland to confirm

[Brian]

cleveland agree to trade flip raley to clear cap and add a guy i like alot

[LockedNLoaded]

Approved

[BHows]

I can't agree with this.
It's a clear salary dump of a bad contract by a team desperate to purchase more FA.
This would cut Houston's balance in half and leave him paying for the equivalent of the #11 CI in our league for the next 4 years.
Sorry

[DaveW]

Do not approve.  Agree with Rick?s points and HOU didn?t write up his rationale for making the trade

[Brian]

the trade was made by houston because he lost max kepler for 80 games from ped. he came to me about raley. i have never veto anybody trades in fgm. their wasnt much in free agency to go after and 99% of the players were over paid.

[jschwab]

Forgot I had to state a rationale for the trade, but Brian has it right. Wanted to fill the hole left by Kepler's suspension, and not get into a big bidding war for a different OF, which would likely cost me more than Raley given the sparse number of servicable OFs available

[Brian]

im glad u all know what im doing in free agency. my outfield iis set. i just got a another catcher. only a few mi left which our going probably going way over price raley contract.

[rcankosy]

Approved

[ldsjayhawk]

Saved from making the deciding vote.
Two vetoes invalidate the trade.  Please revisit.