Dateline: New York, June 24th, 2009: In a stunning coup, the New York Gothams extracted five players from Seattle in exchange for just one player and a draft pick.
New York's GM said "I mean, how can you beat that? We got five players for just one! And from Seattle, no less! What a coup!"
When told by this reporter that the one player New York traded away was starting shortstop Carmino Deleon, last year's Zotti league Outstanding Newcomer and this year's team leader in batting average as well as the Zotti league player of the month in April, New York GM said "Wait... we traded who??? Deleon? What??? Where's that damn assistant GM...." and wandered off with steam coming from his ears....
After talking with his assistant and calming down slightly, NY's GM came back and announced the trade officially to the media. Seattle gets SS Carmino Deleon and NY's 2010 3rd round pick in exchange for ML SP Bradford McGreevy, ML SS Derrick Raglin, AAA 3B Samual Matamoros, AA OF Richard Hudock and AAA MR Otha Wells.
"Well, we hate to give up Deleon, that's for sure. But I guess that assistant of mine got a good amount of talent back. McGreevy gives us a third starting pitcher to build around in addition to Placencia and Bisco, with some more help on the farm in Thomas and Andrews. Matamoros and Hudock are the 20th and 21st rated prospects in the game - Matamoros gives us a solid option at 3B if Harry Diemer opts to leave, and Hudock is a solid young OF that should be teaming with Kevin Rubio in the OF for years to come. Otha Wells doesn't suck, which is a fairly good thing in a middle relief prospect. Raglin.... well, he was good once, maybe he'll find the fountain of youth when he starts drinking the New York City tap water. Plus he'll be a better option at SS for the rest of the year than the other option, which was my assistant GM..."
"We wish Deleon nothing but the best of luck in Seattle. It hurts giving up the top prospect of a few years ago, who we watched come of age in our system with his outstanding 2008, but we needed to get better organizational depth, especially at SP and OF. At least he's out of the league and won't come back to haunt us, except possibly in the Cecil Cup, and it's not like Seattle's ever going to win one of those...."
McGreevey's fast becoming the Bruce Chen of the Zotti league. In the past three seasons, he's pitched for River Cities, South Bay, and, now, New York.
ReplyDeleteAnd, if Seattle wins the Cup, the McGreevey Curse is created. Of course, that will be the least of the universe's problems should that happen.
It's like a Who's Who of Players Hickory Was Told Weren't Available For Nelligan.
ReplyDeleteAh, well. I don't even know what a Who's Who really is, anyway. I wonder what the top minor league systems race will look like now. (We are racing, right?)
Actually, I think only one of those guys was someone I told you I didn't want to deal, and that was because I didn't want to give him up in addition to the other players you wanted. Heck, one of them you refused to take.
ReplyDeleteI feel slandered here. :)
Well Mark is probably talking about me, too - I said Deleon wasn't available for Nelligan. If I was going to trade for Nelligan, I wasn't going to trade away my best major league ready player to do it.
ReplyDeleteTrading Deleon to Seattle was going the opposite way - trying to get younger.
What, one and a half isn't enough for a Who's Who?
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