Donkey Punchers receive:
Roy Halladay, Alexi Oganda, Jeff Niemann, 14th, 15th
Colon No Like Salad receive:
Trevor Cahill, Jeff Karstens, James McDonald, 1st rounder, 7th rounder
The second place Donkey Punchers continued to be aggressive as the deadline approaches, matching Montezuma’s trade with Russ a day prior. The trade values were similar ( I gave a 1st, 10th, and 13th) and both addressed the needs of the team, with Chris adding significant depth to his rotation while chopping off the wounded appendages. Oganda is an interesting one in that there’s been ongoing concern that his history as a reliever would eventually catch up to him and he’d regress terribly. That hasn’t happened, but he has been prone to some nasty, unexpected blowouts from time to time, as seen with his shoddy performance versus Seattle on Tuesday. Niemann, meanwhile, has been great since coming off the DL, looking similar to how he looked in the first half of 2010. If he continues that path of good halves, then this could be a nice add for Chris. Meanwhile, a keeper lineup of Bautista, Teixera, Crawford, Cruz, Halladay and Berkman (maybe Ackley) looks pretty good heading into 2012 as well.
Meanwhile, Russ gets what he sought out when he began last week and will have three first round picks to go along with Cano, Hamilton, Cargo, Felix, Kershaw, and Wainwright. Not bad and may challenge Casten for most jerkoffable roster after the 2012 draft. Considering he gave up Mike Stanton and Gio to get Felix and Hamels (freeing up Halladay to be traded), that was a nice move by Russ, even if it didn’t get him to the playoffs this year. He’s still got some pieces he could trade off too before the deadline comes up, so it may get even better. But considering the depth of talent available on the open market, Russ did well in a short period of time.
So, overall, mission accomplished for both teams. Well done, gentlemen.
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