Season 43 Trade Thoughts Volume 3

The Columbus Buckeyes trade Enrique Diaz and Omar Mendoza to the Boston Beer Bellies for Yoslan Goya and cash

A good, common sense trade for both sides.  Don’t worry about Mendoza, he is worthless.  Boston picks up a solid low setup A/high setup B relief prospect about 2 seasons from the majors.  Columbus improves their play off chances getting a solid corner outfielder with enough bat to play either position.





The Jacksonville Fake ID’s trade Clayton Brooks, Alving Pena, and cash to the Milwaukee Chedda for Taylor Barkley

In a vacuum I don’t like this trade for Jacksonville.  They are already the league’s best team and its not clear that Barkley starts so why give up a top 100 prospect?  In reality, the Fake ID’s have 2 guys on the 60 DL and were starting to give borderline ML players starts.  As a hitter Barkley is ok against righties and bench level against lefties.  However, in the field he has an elite glover and even better range.  He can creditably be a plus defender everywhere except SS and C.  He’ll be a more than acceptable second basemen for the Fake ID’s while they wait for reinforcements.  The get Clayton who is a ML backup and the money to pay for his salary.  The prize is Pena.  Pena will be a ML quality RF with no glaring weakness and an elite batting eye and baserunning.  Not an all-star, but a starting quality RF’er.  Both teams did well.



The Colorado House of Horror trade Aurelio Duran and cash to the Columbus Buckeyes for Daryl Fellhauer, Wallace Lofton, and Olmedo Hernandez

Duran is, on paper if not in performance, an elite ML reliever.  Closer quality.  He is 35, but not overly expensive for his ratings. I probably should have put in an offer.  Really impressed with Columbus for getting such a high quality arm.  Colorado did fine too.  Hernandez is probably never more than a fringe ML’er, but Fellhauer and Lofton will play in the show.  Fellhauer will never be Duran good, but he’ll make a decent setup B.  Lofton is a little harder to track, but he looks to be low to average starting 3B.  At worst a terrific ML bench piece eventually.  Trading a 35-year old who has never made an all-star game and getting 2 ML quality prospect is always acceptable.