Cardinals / Brewers (Part III)

[St. Louis GM (Bert)]

Cardinals Trade :
LF/CF/RF Lars Nootbaar (Cardinals : 3rd) $1.0
SS Masyn Winn (Cardinals : 1st) $0.3 - www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/winnma01.shtml
SS Danny De Andrade (Twins : 1st) $0.3 - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=deandr000dan
RHP Michael McGreevy (Cardinals : 1st) $0.3 - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mcgree000mic
LHP Pete Hansen (Cardinals : 1st) $0.3 - www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hansen003pet

Brewers Trade :
LF Yordan Alvarez (Astros : 6th) $7.1

Cap Change :
Cardinals +$4.9
Brewers -$4.9

De Andrade Acquired - mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/thread/5568/cardinals-twins
Alvarez Acquired - mlbbaseballleague.proboards.com/thread/7006/brewers-royals

I keep thinking I'm out of insane trades, but I keep weaseling my way into them. I needed a big bat, and J-Rod wasn't walking through the door, so here I am landing Alvarez in the hopes he can bolster my offense. I'm going to hate this at this time next year if I haven't put my banner up with the others, and probably every time I see Nootbaar / Winn helping Bill win down the road, but no risk it no biscuit. ANTBOL.

Side Note - Would not have had "Trade With MIL Three Times" in my offseason Bingo card. Should have labeled the 2nd trade so they wouldn't all blend together.

[Brewers GM (Bill)]

Apologies to the TC for the annoyance of 3 separate trades, but they did somehow come together completely independently of one another.

Brewers accept. First, trading Yordan sucks, he is a ceiling raiser. Second, I kinda have to since I paid $23.2 for Acuna and would like to try to compete for all 5 years of his deal, not just this one. It's definitely a step back this year, but Lars is, like, 50% of a Yordan at a fraction of the salary this year and controllable for 3 more. Winn is a solid prospect who I hope will be an all categories contributor as soon as this season. The pitchers are low ceiling, but to me they are also likely big leaguers in due time and back-end SP contributors. I will need that in the years to come as my SP situation is unenviable. De Andrade is young for his level and cut back on K's pretty well in the 2nd half last year, an interesting flier to be sure.

Thanks once again, Bert.

[D'backs GM (Mo)]

My favorite trade of the offseason thus far
Approve 1-0

[Brewers GM (Bill)]

prospect links:

Masyn Winn www.fangraphs.com/players/masyn-winn/27479/stats?position=SS
Danny De Andrade www.fangraphs.com/players/danny-de-andrade/sa3015698/stats?position=SS
Michael McGreevy www.fangraphs.com/players/michael-mcgreevy/sa3017598/stats?position=P
Pete Hansen www.fangraphs.com/players/peter-hansen/sa3020798/stats?position=P

[Astros GM (Adam)]

Approve (2-0)

[Royals GM (Jordan)]

Approve 3-0

[Brewers GM (Bill)]

rosters updated

[St. Louis GM (Bert)]

Rosters Updated, prospect links added to the first post. Can't believe I missed that.