Phillies - Rockies Trade

[papps]

Phillies send:

OF Francisco, Ben, $0.5m (2013)
OF Beltre, Engel, $0.5m (P-n/a)

for

RP Medlen, Kris, $1.5m (2014)
Col pays .5m this year

I have a ton of injuries to my RP's and Medlen will help.  Beltre is a decent prospect but I really need an RP now.  Thanks for the easy negotiations Eric.  :toth:

Rockies to confirm.

[Eric]

:COL: confirms

I needed another OF to replace the injured Young. I like Beltre as a spec and have good hopes for him. Francisco helps me out this year.

Thanks Papps!

[OUDAN]

 :iatp:

[MillerTime]

Approved

[Corey]

Approved

[h4cheng]

I have nothing against this deal but Beltre is signed this offseason and cannot be moved until June 1st (unless this rule is no longer in effect given we now have the 60 day no movement rule).

[papps]

Ah yes I do see it in the rules.  I was going by the 60 day rule.  If it can't be processed now I have no problem waiting until June 1 if we have to.

This may be a dumb question but he was signed in spring training.  Is spring training considered offseason?

[Dan Wood]

Yes it is

[papps]

MLB does not consider spring training the offseason.  Again, I don't mind waiting until June 1 if we have to but I just want to be sure.

[Dan Wood]

Understood, we do it to make it so, more or less, gets available for trade at the same time. And yes spring training is still the off-season for us. The off-season ends once real MLB is under way