Royals / Diamondbacks Trade

[ldsjayhawk]

:KC: trades

Jeremy Jeffress
Johnny Giavotella
Jorge Bonifacio

to :ARZ: for

Matt Garza
Stephen Drew
Raul Ibanez


The Royals pick up the strong starting pitcher to fill a big need as they make a playoff run.  In addition they pickup an extra MI and an outfielder to plug holes to hopefully send them on a good run through the playoffs.  Good working with you Arizona.

[jrmatt73]

It was great working this trade out with the Royals.

The key to this trade for the Diamondbacks is locking up young talent for years to come at a cheap price. We feel our return adds to our strong core of young players under team control.

While it hurts to lose proven MLB talents, Ibanez and Drew are both in their walk year and would not have been resigned this off season. Garza has been a solid contributor for Arizona and will be missed but we feel he can be replaced by some of the young up and coming pitchers in our system that are close to the MLB and will be contributing to the big league roster in the near future.

In return Arizona gets two guys in Giavotella and Jeffress who are young, talented, have some big league experience and we believe will be contributors at some point this season as well as be fixtures on the big league roster for the remainder of their contracts. Respectively they have 5 and 4 years of very affordable team control remaining.

Bonifacio has had a break out season as a power hitting 19yr old and has seen his stock rise substantially. He is a great addition to our farm system and we believe he will continue to improve and ultimately add to the big league roster.

[ldsjayhawk]

Just realized that I did not put trade in the subject line.  Can we get some fast votes on this, since it has gone over the 72 hours?  Thanks.

[larry]

Kenny posted that if no votes either way then the trade will be approved as long as the 72 hrs has been completed.

[speedster18431]

 :iatp:

[Tarheels55]

Players salaries need to be posted before i will vote

[Lindner]

Players salaries need to be posted before i will vote

[snbts]

Should be too late more than 72 hours passed...trade should be approved

[Lindner]

Should be too late more than 72 hours passed...trade should be approved

I like voting anyway. 

[snbts]

touche