I’m still half asleep, get notifications on my phone that Billy Beane is pushing his chips all in this year for the Championship. Trading All-Star outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to the Boston Red Sox for ace left handed pitcher Jon Lester & outfielder Johnny Gomes(of Petaluma welcome home Gomes!). Risky move but I like it. Cespedes was a free agent they signed and he seems to be more flash over actual production. That and in A’s terms he made a gazillion dollars. The big rumors is that Lester plans all along to go back to the Red Sox after this year so it’s likely an expensive 2 month rental. If they don’t win the championship it will be viewed as a failure.
Obviously Jason Hamel or Jesse Chavez doesn’t get the job done as a starter come playoff time the way they have been pitching so a move had to be done. A’s have some pure ace pitchers. Lastly Cespedes can hit free agency after the 2015 season so knowing that he likely would have bolted Oakland they just sped up the process.
Things are getting interesting out west.
UPDATE #1: Word has surfaced that Boston will also receive a competitive balance pick from Oakland, while Oakland will receive cash.
UPDATE #2: Someone sure knows how to be a GM from fantasy baseball(me). Oakland traded pitcher in Triple A Tommy Milone to Minnesota for OF Sam Fuld who was with Oakland earlier this year. Yes we released him, yes it seems weird, but we needed OF depth and not another starting pitcher. Even though Milone’s deal is nice. We probably could have waited for more today.
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