And if that doesn't work you can always designate him. Assign him for a day or two, and then designate him again. It would be a pain in the rear but at least you could keep the damage to your ML club at a minimum and not have to pay for him to play for another team.
There are ways of trading this guy but you can't just post on the board and expect someone to jump on him. Two examples...
Get proactive and offer him straight across for every crappy ML player there is. To every team. I had a decent pitcher who was older (34) and on a 2 year contract. I just wanted to get rid of his salary. I offered him to about 20 teams for their worst ML pitcher that WAS ON A ML MINIMUM CONTRACT. You see I played on their emotions and got them to take about 7 million in salary just to get rid of a guy that was not performing. I got like 8 rejections before I got one to accept but it's numbers. I simply sent the player i received to AAA and lost a bunch of salary. The other team got a usable pitcher but they also got his salary. It was a good move for me and probably for them too because they got rid of the guy with the 8.50 ERA.
Another thing you can do is package him with a good prospect in a trade. For example, put him with a starting pitcher prospect who projects at 72 and offer him in a trade to another team for some 67-68 projected career minor leaguer. Again you might have to offer 10 deals like that to get 1 accepted. But it's all about getting proactive. And by all means don't be afraid to pay this season's salary for him if he's long term. If this is his last season then there would be no harm in releasing him, unless he's going to be type A or B.
9/10/2010 1:59 AM (edited)