Over the course of this week, we’ve somehow managed to cover nearly every transaction. But by my count, there are four that we failed to comment on, and that is simply unacceptable. So let’s tackle them, in no particular order:

Rockies trade Josh Rutledge to the Angels for Jairo Diaz

This is one of those rare trades that could end up being a win-win or a lose-lose, so of course I love it. When it went down, Howie Kendrick had not yet been traded, so it was a bit of a mystery as to why the Angels wanted Rutledge. Now that Kendrick has migrated up I-5 however, it makes a lot more sense. Sort of.

I’ve written about Rutledge before, and since I did back in May 2013, he hasn’t really shown much. To wit:

• July 13, 2012 (MLB debut) through Aug. 31, 2012: 150 plate appearances, .345/.360/.634, .419 wOBA, 150 wRC+, 2.0% BB%, 13.3% K%
• Sept. 1, 2012 to present: 797 PA, .242/.298/.357, .291 wOBA, 66 wRC+, 6.0% BB%, 22.5% K%

Rutledge still has a decent 90 wRC+ projection for next season, but it’s unduly influenced by those first 150 PA. Rutledge is still just 26 next year, so it’s not over yet, but we can probably chalk him up as a fluke at this point. The Rockies have somewhat committed to DJ Lemahieu at second, and in a world where Troy Tulowitzki is healthy, they have almost zero use for Rutledge.

The Rockies do need bullpen help though, and getting Diaz could be a nice under the radar move. Diaz jumped from High-A, to Double-A to the majors last season, and struck out more than one-third of the batters he faced at each of the three levels. He also stranded an absurd 86.4 percent of base runners in Double-A, and his FIP still ended up being lower than his ERA. It remained so in the majors, but just for a miniscule sample. He throws just two pitches, and one of them is not a curveball, and he has good velocity separation thanks to his 97 mph cheese. The downside is that it is just 5.2 innings of low-leverage relief work, and he wasn’t a top prospect last year in what was/is a pretty weak Angels farm system, so Rockies fans shouldn’t get too excited. At least, not yet.

Nationals trade Ross Detwiler to Rangers for Chris Bostick and Abel De Los Santos

Banished to the bullpen last season, Detwiler didn’t have the kind of pitch mix and/or stuff that plays up in the bullpen, and he was essentially buried on Matt Williams’ depth chart. He ranked ninth out of 12 Nats relievers in gmLI (leverage when entering the game). In other words, the Nationals didn’t need him. So they flipped him to Texas, who most certainly does need starting pitchers.

Aside from the walking injured, Martin Perez and Matt Harrison, Detwiler now becomes the Rangers’ third-best starter behind Yu Darvish and Derek Holland. If that sounds like an indictment of the Rangers’ current roster, well it is, but that’s why they’re trying to upgrade it. Detwiler gets a lot of ground balls, but his xFIP routinely paints him as someone who seems like he should be allowing more home runs than he does, and moving from Nationals Park (home run park factor of 97) to Globe Life Park (106) will certainly test that out.

De Los Santos is probably the prize in the deal for Washington, and he received a brief mention in Kiley’s Rangers’ prospect piece back in August. Here’s a video Nathaniel Stoltz shot of him early last season:

Phillies trade Antonio Bastardo to Pirates for Joely Rodriguez

Earlier in the week, the Pirates signed a lefty starter in Francisco Liriano, and then they went out and got a lefty reliever in Bastardo.

Bastardo should help in Pittsburgh, whose relief corps had just the 20th-best FIP in the game last year against left-handed batters. The great thing about Bastardo though is that he is not just a LOOGY. For his career, he has near-identical 3.34 and 3.33 FIPS against lefties and righties, respectively, and he has thrown 55 more innings against right-handed batters. His K-BB% is four percent better against lefties, but it is certainly not necessary to remove him when a right-handed batter steps into the box. In fact, last season, he was better against righties than he was lefties.

In return, the Phillies get Rodriguez, who has been a notable player in the past. He didn’t do much in his Double-A debut that was worth hanging your hat on, as he struck out just 5.2 percent more hitters than he walked, but he did improve in his brief time in the Arizona Fall League. He is essentially the exact kind of player the Phillies should be targeting in these sorts of deals — possibly high impact wild cards that are within striking distance of the majors.

Cardinals sign Mark Reynolds

Did you know that Mark Reynolds hit 22 home runs last year? Yeah, he totally did, for the Brewers. Myself, I had forgotten all about Reynolds, but he actually had himself a nice little season, putting up a 1.6 WAR figure that was his best mark since 2010. Oddly, much of it was on the strength of his defense at both first and third base. Unless Reynolds found the fountain of flexibility and/or youth at age 30, I wouldn’t put too much stock in those numbers repeating themselves, but there are certainly worse bench players to have. Reynolds was one of just two players to have a BABIP at .218 or under and still post a 80 or better wRC+. That .218 BABIP easily represented a career low, and may be due to a lack of line drives hit last year, but if his BABIP regresses back up to his career norms, he could end up being a very useful bench bat indeed.