Rays accept this trade. My first order was to add arms and this trade helps me do that. Strasburg is a great pitcher and Reid Foley is a solid organizational depth piece arm. Tulowitzki is my favorite player so I definitely wanted to add him despite expiring deal. Beltran allows me to continue to compete this season.

Losing Belt stings, but I had to move a big piece. Toles is super cheap and controllable but it helped get deal done. Thanks for the continued negotiations on this deal.

Kevin-TB

 

Welcome Geoff!  Sad day that I didn't get the opportunity to use Kershaw in Armchair.  Maybe we can swing another deal in here.  Glad to see you joined.  I'm Tampa now instead of TOR.

Tampa Bay accepts the trade.  Russell Martin is a future free agent that is older so I want to keep a nice young influx of talent.  Wentz was my 1st round pick (in Armchair) so I feel good about him.  Bedrosian is a future closer and Giles is cheap controllable talent who got more comfortable in Houston as the year wore on. 

The trade cannot technically be pushed until January 15th because of Wentz draft status, but I wanted to lock it in.  Thanks to Philly for smooth negotiation.

You seem to have some rage issues.

Raimel Tapia is #71 on mlb's top prospects list which is a higher ranking than any prospect in your entire system.  Lorenzo Cedrola is a top 20 Gulf Coast League prospect for Baseball America and ranked one spot lower than Austin Franklin on that list.  Franklin was a third round pick in this year's draft.  So a top 100 guy and an equivalent value to a 3rd round pick is hardly anything close to garbage.

Mallex, Jank, and Holt factually did score more than 1,000 combined and would have scored more if not for Mallex breaking his thumb and Holt having a nagging shoulder injury and fluke concussion.

In addition, Bradley's 2017 projected Arb figure is $3.3m and up from there in 2018 so the Astros are adding salary here by giving up prospects and 2nd year Arb deals.

Mallex is garbage. I've watched him too many times and all he contributes is speed. Jankowski had a super over achieving year. He does not have a good pedigree at all. Holt is a utility infielder. Tapia, I said he was good although he isn't a world beater. Cedrola isn't even top ten in his system and still hasn't gotten out of rookie ball.

Bradley is a gold Glover who finally found his swing at the major league level. Ramirez helped carry Cleveland all year.

My system has nothing to do with this trade. I have a few top 100 along with guys on the fast track. I probably have 40-45 top 30s which is better than most.

God forbid if someone says your trade is trash.