Brewers / Reds trade stars

[Brewers GM]

C Lavarnway, Ryan, $0.5m (P-n/a)
CI Youkilis, Kevin, $10.5m (2013)
X-CI Youkilis, Kevin, Cash Exchanged on Contract (2011), $-4m in 2011 (from NYY)
X-CI Youkilis, Kevin, Cash Exchanged on Contract (2011), $-3m in 2011 (from MIL, new with this deal)

FOR

C Mauer, Joe, $10m (2013)
X-C Mauer, Joe, Cash Exchanged on Contract, $-7m in 2011

Youk is an elite player on a solid contract, but trading from a position of strength for a player in Mauer I've tried to acquire for a long time.  Good doing business with you Dan.

[Dan Wood]

Reds agree. We do this deal for several reasons. For starters we bring Youk home to Ohio. Second, the Cincy front office loves us some Lava. Parting with Mauer was tough but hopefully Lavarnway will be in Boston in 2012, and Youk will make one of our CI's expendable in order to fill some other organizational needs.

Pleasure Ben, good luck to you.

Reds drop
SP Peralta, Wily, $0.5m (P-n/a)
CI Rincon, Edinson, $0.5m (P-n/a)

to get to cap

[papps]

 :iatp:

[MillerTime]

Smart return on Mauer.  Approved.

[Brewers GM]

 :bump:

Can we get some more votes on this one - it would be nice to have this processed before the Soto deal goes through...

[Corey]

not on tc but its a good deal.... tradeking and joeshmoe arent very much so your gona be scrambling for your votes.

[Dan Wood]

I think some RC members could chime in, since the deal is getting stale, and I would like to have my line-up set for next week.

[h4cheng]

Trade looks good to me as well.

[Dan Wood]

I'm processing on Fantrax then, any objections?