Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Wheeling and Dealing

Offseason Trades
Kicking the off season off Las Vegas sends veteran SP Jarvis to Trenton for 2 SP prospects.

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Winner: Trenton (Gonzalez can certainly change that)

Columbus sends 2 prospects to Austin for CF/3B Welington Perez
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Winner: Columbus

Columbus sends 1b Branson and P Mota to Fargo for 2 SS
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Winner: Columbus

Tampa Bay sends RHrl Hector Lee and $1.8 mil in cash to Austin for prospect
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Winner: Push, TB sheds salary, Austin gets a veteran closer

Montgomery sends CF Cliff Thomas and $2 mil to Augusta for SS prospect Gonzalez and a reliever
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Winner: Augusta, its close but a good CF are hard to come by and Thomas fits the bill.

Cheyenne sends 3b Juan Gonzalez and Weiss to LA Lunatics for 3 prospects
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Winner: Cheyenne, sheds $11.750 in contracts and picks up 3 future ML'ers

Honolulu sends #3 prospect Todd Magnuson and Norm Farr to Las Vegas for SS Jimmie Reyes, 2 other players and $1 mil
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Winner: Las Vegas, still wondering why Honolulu sends its best prospect to a division rival

Cheyenne sends SP John Williams and RF Adam Ransom (ideal name for the trade) to Honolulu for 2 solid prospects
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Winner: Cheyenne. I'm convinced that Honolulu is allergic to good prospects and must get rid of them for average Major Leaguers.

Texas sends SP David Cheng to New Britain for CF prospect Martin
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Winner: Texas, acquiring Martin a nice pick up for the future.

Syracuse Marshals send 3 players to Augusta for stud prospect McDowell
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Winner: Syracuse, a win-win for both teams but I like what Syracuse got for the future.

Florida sends 2b Vin Pujols and $2 mil to New Britain for 2 solid prospects
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Winner: Push, both teams get pieces that help each other