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Trade Bait: Winners and Losers
August 1, 2006 · Filed Under Trade Bait · Comment
This year the non-waiver trade deadline came to an end with a flurry of deals before the mid-afternoon deadline. Much different than last season’s boredom. Also, kudos again to MLB for moving back the time of the deadline from midnight to mid-afternoon a couple years back.
Since the deals came on fast and furious I decided to just breakdown the winners and losers of the past few days. Below is a breakdown with no particular ranking.
| Winners | Losers | |
| Royals | Mets | |
| Loaded up on arms and power bat. | Lot power bat, arm to injury | |
| Braves | Nationals | |
| Two arms that have late game experience that solidifies the pen. | Although they improved their offense, trade season will be a failure if Soriano isn’t resigned. | |
| Reds | Phillies | |
| Loaded up on bullpen arms. Gave up too much to Nats though. | Salary dumps all over with little in return. | |
| Yankees | Red Sox | |
| Long term RF bat, a decent rotation arm, and a good bat off the bench. | No moves in reaction to the Yankees moves | |
| Mariners | Orioles | |
| Actually got a prospect for Guardado, then got powerbat for stretch | Did not unload any players in preparation for next season. | |
| Devil Rays | Blue Jays | |
| Continued to get quality prospects in return for players not in their future. | Why not add someone like Craig Wilson to replace Hillenbrand? | |
| Twins | White Sox | |
| Could’ve used more power, but unloaded Lohse, that’s enough. | Overpaid for relief help. | |
| Dodgers | Cubs | |
| More talent throughout the infield now than you can shake a stick at. Got Maddux and got rid of Odalis Perez. | Cesar Izturis addition ensures the Cubs will have the least productive middle infield for years to come | |
| Pirates | Rockies | |
| They actually got something for Kip Wells?! | Now overloaded with lefty arms in the pen. But what else? | |
| Cardinals | Diamondbacks | |
| Belliard for second base is good, Weaver for the rotation is bad. Unless Duncan can work his magic. | Only a game and a half out of the wildcard and nothing to help the rotation. | |
| Padres | Giants | |
| Filled the offensive hole at third base. But Todd Walker is not much of a fill. | Can a slumping Hillenbrand be considered an improvement? | |
| Tigers | Astros | |
| Got lefty bat they needed and good clubhouse guy. | Clemens supposedly said “do something”, they did nothing after Huff. | |
| Athletics | ||
| Needed offensive help, didn’t get it. | ||
| Angels | ||
| See above | ||
| Marlins | ||
| Indecisiveness. |
