 The two were extremely similar at the time they were dealt, to my eye.  The two best pitchers were unquestionably Zack Greinke and Johnny Cueto.  Despite going back four seasons, there haven’t been a lot of deals that fit the criteria. The list is sorted, roughly, by value changing hands.  Scouting ratings ( explanation, scale) are those provided by Kiley McDaniel at FanGraphs, which are unfortunately only available for players since fall 2014.  Prospect rankings were usually from the preseason prior to the trade, but when possible I used mid-season rankings and ratings.  In a few cases, I had make my own projection using a quick and dirty approximation of the Marcel method because I couldn’t find any old projections online or on my hard drive for that player.  When possible, the projections were in-season ZiPS projections, or ZiPS projections dated as close to the trade date as I could find (sometimes from the following offseason).
Therefore, I am not including trades like last July’s Jeff Samardzija or David Price deals (both pitchers had more than a year of control left), the Jon Lester/Yeonis Cespedes deal (Cespedes was a major leaguer), or a salary dump like the Josh Beckett/Adrian Gonzalez/Carl Crawford Dodgers/Red Sox deal of 2012.įor each deal, I tried to find close-to-timely projections for major league players, and prospect ranks/ratings for the minor leaguers. Any cash and/or salary changing hands was modest and not critical to understanding the deal.The return for the starter was primarily prospects.
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The trade featured an established, quality starting pitcher traded mid-season, who was bound for free agency that offseason (i.e.To start, I combed through transaction records ( via mlbtraderumors) of the past four seasons in search of trades that met these criteria:
 Michael Maffie did something similar to this last July when the Reds were rumored to be considering trades of their starters, but I’ll take a somewhat different approach. The question I want to try to address is whether the return the Reds received matches what we should have expected given Cueto’s combination of excellence and limited team control. John Lamb, LHP, 25 years old by Kevin Michell  Therefore, please refer to those articles for in-depth biographical and analytical information on the new players:īrandon Finnegan, LHP, 22 years old by Grant FrekingĬody Reed, LHP, 22 years old by Jeremy Conley Redleg Nation writers have already written great profiles on the three prospects that are now part of the Reds organization through this deal.  Others, however, have felt the deal fell well short of the mark they’d hoped to see for the best Reds pitcher since Jose Rijo.  Some have hailed the three left-handed pitching prospects as a good haul for Cincinnati’s former ace.
Perusing the blogosphere and the twitter, reactions to the Johnny Cueto trade have been very mixed.
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