交易中常看到有 "player to be named later" 的字眼.
為什麼會如此???
1999.12.24 Baseball America 的 Ask BA 有概略的解釋.
Players can be named later for a variety of reasons. Often times it seems
the teams really don't know who the player will be at the time they make
the deal. Generally they draw up a list of a handful of candidates and the
receiving team picks one of them at a later date. Sometimes the teams
agree upon the player, but they are waiting for a certain deadline to
pass. When the Mets included lefthander Geoff Goetz in the Mike
Piazza deal with the Marlins in 1998, they had to wait to officially name
him because of a rule prohibiting the trading of players until a year after
they are signed.
The Cubs recently sent righthander Brian Stephenson to the Dodgers as
the player to be named in the Ismael Valdes deal. In that case, they
wanted to make sure he wasn't picked in the Rule 5 draft. Imagine the
Dodgers trading for him only to lose him a day later. Had Stephenson
been selected, the Cubs and Dodgers would have had to choose
another player to include.
In some trades the player to be named is dependent on how much help
the other player or players in the deal provide to their new club.
Sometimes you see these deals reported as a player being traded for
"future considerations." If my memory serves me right, this is what
happened in 1998 when the Rockies dealt John Vander Wal to the
Padres down the stretch. Vander Wal came to the Padres on August
31, just in time to make the postseason roster. He batted .400 in 15
postseason at-bats, and on Oct. 29 the Padres sent outfielder Kevin
Burford to the Rockies to complete the trade. Burford was the No. 2
prospect in the Rookie-level Arizona League in 1997 and the No. 13
player on the Padres Top 10 list before the 1998 season, so he was
held in some regard by the organization. Had Vander Wal scuffled in the
playoffs it's possible the player to be named would have been someone
else.
According to the Montreal Gazette, the two players to be named in the
Irabu deal will both be pitchers, but they didn't have any scoop on who
those would be. Westbrook ranked as the No. 4 prospect on the Expos Top 10, behind righthander Tony Armas and outfielder Milton Bradley
and Peter Bergeron, so obviously the Expos thought highly of him.
Considering how eager the Yankees seemed to get rid of Irabu, I can't
imagine the other two players will be top prospects, but I guess we'll
have to wait to find out for sure.
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