2014 Trade Reaction Roundup
Well, that’s about the most active trade deadline I can remember, though it might not feel that way if you live in Philadelphia, Colorado, or Toronto. Still, some big deals happened, some small deals happened, and a bunch of players are changing uniforms. We’ve written about most of the deals, with multiple angles on all the big ones. To make them easy to find, here’s one big post to find all our reactions in one spot. As we add more write-ups, we’ll add them here as well.
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The Jon Lester Trade
Jon Lester and the A’s Fascinating Big Bet on 2014
Dave Cameron
Red Sox Focus on 2015 in Jon Lester Trade
Paul Swydan
Sam Fuld and Completing the A’s
Jeff Sullivan
The New and Improved Jon Lester
Tony Blenigno
The David Price Trade
Tigers See the A’s Jon Lester, Raise Them David Price
Dave Cameron
In Austin Jackson, Mariners Land Decent Player and Massive Upgrade
Jeff Sullivan
Don’t Write Off the Rays End of the David Price Trade Just Yet
Tony Blengino
The John Lackey Trade
Cardinals Improve by Adding Lackey, Subtracting Craig
Mike Petriello
Second Red Sox Trade Affirms 2015 Focus
Dave Cameron
The Asdrubal Cabrera Trade
Nationals Take Small Risk in Dealing Risky Prospect
Eno Sarris
Five Versions of Cleveland’s New Prospect, Zach Walters
Carson Cistulli
The Andrew Miller Trade
Orioles Land Andrew Miller From Busy Red Sox
Paul Swydan
The Gerardo Parra Trade
Brewers Bet on a Different Sort of Regression
Jeff Sullivan
The Chris Denorfia Trade
Chris Denorfia: Improvement by Being Not Endy Chavez
Dave Cameron
The Martin Prado and Stephen Drew Trades
Yankees Gain Flexibility in Landing Prado, Drew
Paul Swydan
The Chat
Dave is the Managing Editor of FanGraphs.
No InstaGraph on the Bonifacio/Russell BLOCKBUSTER?
Is that sarcasm I detect? Emilio Bonafacio is a nice little player who can do a lot of things for you. He’s a nice little player. He’s a guy that is a real team guy. He’ll play all over the diamond. If you need him to bunt a guy over he’ll do that. He’ll steal a base for you. Do a little hit and run. Nice slap hitter. He and Josh Harrison are some of the more valuable players.
Not enough RBI’s though.
Alexei! Buerhle! Beckham! Konerko! hYes!
Not fair to Harrison to mention him with Bonifacio, Harrison acutally has decent power and much better wOBA.
Harrison .295/.333/.473 .350 wOBA
Bonifacio .279/.318/.373 .305 wOBA
I guess your little, sarcasm detector, ain’t working because, I don’t care who you are, okay?, if you don’t have chemistry, then all of the talent in the world ain’t gonna help you.
Chemistry, the will to win, making the routine play, hYes!
Brock Holt! Brock Holt! Brock Holt!