This is a sad moment for Montreal fans, the RCL Silver Slugger winner, Tom "Horseface" Becker is gone. The fans had these moments in the past, when Montreal trade Gary Carter and many others. The big difference is that the Management didn't have a real chance in signing him. We thanks the "Horseface" for the 2 titles, but his agent is still not welcome in Montreal.
We trade Becker to Washington, before the beginning of the Free Agent period, because he still had some values and we were done negociating with Becker agent. In return we get the Closer of the Capitalist José Guevara, a 5 stars left-handed reliever, that the bandits needed in their bullpen (no lefted arm in the bullpen last year).
With the signature of Becker contract in Washington, 8 years at 22 Millions dollars per year, the Bandits also get 50th prospect 1B George Soucy, a future big bat in the big league. He should replace Eric Ware at the end of his contract.
Guevara and Soucy has a greater value than the 2 picks we will have obtain as a compensation for losing Becker to free agency. For the team, it was good. Even thought now, our division will be a lot tougher, Rudyard in Minnesota and Becker in Washington. We were 13-2 against Washington last season, it won't be the same next year. But GM Patterson was the only one who really show interest in Becker, therefore we had no real choice.
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