The 2014 MLB trade deadline definitely was not boring. With players like Jon Lester, Yoenis Cespedes, and David Price on the move yesterday, the 2014 playoff race is set to be one of the best ever. With so many major league ballplayers on the move, there were winners and losers.
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2014 MLB Trade Deadline Losers
Tampa Bay Rays
The Rays were victims of highway robbery on Thursday when they traded pitching ace David Price. What the Rays got in return was not a good price (pun intended.) Tampa receives Drew Smyly from the Tigers and Nick Franklin from the Mariners in a three team trade. That’s it? No top prospect? No front of the line player? Only two average players for their ace? Yes, that seems to be the gist of it. The Rays also received minor leaguer, Willy Adames. Adames is a Class-A short-stop. Some say that he’s the top prospect in the Tigers Organization, but his numbers say otherwise. Adames is only hitting .269/.346/.428 with six home runs. These three players don’t exactly scream, “We want a World Series.” To me, this was a deal that worked in favor of the Tigers, and especially the Mariners.
Kansas City Royals
What do you mean they didn’t make any trades? They acquired Jason Frasor, Scott Downs, Erik Kratz, and Liam Hendriks. Too bad these deals all happened before deadline day yesterday. While it seemed like almost everybody around them got better (Tigers) they stood pat, and are, “Confident in our core group of players, and believe we have another run in us.” That was the explanation that the fans of Kansas City received as the why they did not get one single player on trade deadline day. What I heard was, “Excuses, excuses. Blah, blah, blah. We’re really cheap.” Which is pretty much what it boils down to.
Overall, there were winners, like the A’s and the Red Sox, and there were losers, like the Rays. There were also teams that made fair deals, like the Nationals swapping Asdrubal Cabrera for the Nationals short stop, Zach Walters. It was a good deadline day for baseball that started from the minute you woke up until the 4:00 P.M eastern cut-off time.
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