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karch34 wrote:So
Cubs send out Feldman, Clevenger, Marmol, Torreas, and 1 international slot
Cubs receive Relievers Guerrier & Strop, starter Arietta, and 4 international slots

Did I miss anything? Should I be excited or apathetic?

Badbeats wrote:

karch34 wrote:So
Cubs send out Feldman, Clevenger, Marmol, Torreas, and 1 international slot
Cubs receive Relievers Guerrier & Strop, starter Arietta, and 4 international slots

Did I miss anything? Should I be excited or apathetic?

I was so excited when I heard we traded Feldman. We did not need to trade him, and it was so early on I figured the Orioles must have made a great offer.

A 28 and 29 year old players with bad track records? I just dont get it.

karch34 wrote:I didn't know the slots were $ amounts that counted toward the international player cap. So I can see where getting some extra cap space would be a good move. Sounds like the extra spots allowed us to sign 2 of the top 3 and 4 of the top 20 international players. I think this was the first year they did it where every team had a certain amount of spots with a fixed dollar amount.

23. Jen-Ho Tseng, rhp, Taiwan
Born: Oct. 3, 1994. Ht.: 6-1. Wt.: 200. B-T: L-R.

At the end of last year, Tseng looked like a surefire million-dollar prospect who could have ranked No. 1 overall on this list, and some scouts felt would have been a first-round pick had he been born in the United States. But Tseng has gone backward this spring in terms of his stuff, control and game performance.

Tseng has shown he could dominate his peers and foreign professionals while pitching for Taiwan’s national team. He appeared in six of Taiwan’s eight games at the 18U World Championship last September in South Korea, with a 22-2 K-BB mark in 21 innings and an ERA of 0.84. He saw brief action in the World Baseball Classic qualifier in November. Then he threw six shutout innings in a key 7-0 win over South Korea in the Asian Championship in Taiwan in December. He pitched in the WBC in March as an 18-year-old, where he understandably struggled in a pair of relief appearances, but his stuff and control weren’t sharp.

Tseng simply hasn’t been as electric this year. At his best last year, he pitched at 89-92 mph and touched 95, and at times earned plus grades for his curveball and changeup, with some scouts grading the changeup as a potential plus-plus pitch. He showed the ability to throw his curve for strikes consistently with tight spin and mixed in an average slider. At the WBC, his fastball parked in the high 80s, his breaking ball was loose and his control was erratic. Scouts who have watched him since then have said his stuff and command are still down. Some have expressed concern about Tseng’s durability due to his frame and mechanics, and others think his usage could be the culprit and that his stuff could bounce back after he signs.

Tseng is the biggest X-factor in the class, as any team that signs him is banking on what scouts saw from him last year rather than what he has shown recently.