Comments on: Braves send Kenshin Kawakami and his $6.7 million salary to Double-A http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Thu, 23 May 2013 20:04:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: paperlions http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123661 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:18:03 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123661 Yeah, but you said that they “are paying” him $10MM/year. They aren’t they paid his team a posting fee. He is getting paid $4MM/year to pitch in AAA.

]]> By: guileless22 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123623 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:37:14 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123623 Welcome to Pearl, Miss. Mr, Kawakami.

]]> By: BC http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123572 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:14:04 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123572 What are they doing? Everyone knows wins don’t matter!
(OK, that one’s getting old too….)

]]> By: phukyouk http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123565 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:01:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123565 total spent on him was 41M over a 4yr period. dont know exactly how it breaks down but on avg its 10M.

]]> By: banksatdixie http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123558 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:46:55 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123558 No, they’re paying him $4MM this year. Of course they did pay $26MM for his posting fee. Brilliant knee-jerk reaction!

]]> By: garryfish http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123542 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:32:44 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123542 …are you sayin trade?!?!?!? Could be better than Millwood

]]> By: phukyouk http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123541 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:28:25 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123541 the Yanks are paying Iguana 10 Mil a yr to pitch in AAA only with no chance of ever being called up again. im just sayin…..

]]> By: nps6724 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123532 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:15:12 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123532 In hopes a team suffers an injury and needs someone to take a spot. A low-level prospect and/or $1 million in return is better than nothing.

]]> By: lanflfan http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123531 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:13:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123531 Ouch. Why not just release him, you are effectively doing that anyway, and if you believe he has nothing to offer then let him go.

]]> By: jwbiii http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123523 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:04:26 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123523 they sent Kawakami all the way down to Double-A because “they want to keep
him further away than a cab ride from Turner Field in case they are even tempted to call him up.

]]> By: nps6724 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/30/braves-send-kenshin-kawakami-and-his-6-7-million-salary-to-double-a/comment-page-1/#comment-123520 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:00:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=48681#comment-123520 He may be a perfectly decent 4th or 5th starter for OTHER teams, but he is the 8th-best starter Atlanta has. It will take at least 3 injuries to starters for Kawakami to get back to Atlanta, whether he’s in AA or AAA.

Also, I don’t know who said this, but I have read the Braves wanted to get him out of his Atlanta mansion (AAA Gwinnett is an hour outside of Atlanta) to entice him to help facilitate a trade. Putting him in AA and keeping him away from home could do it.

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