Friday, July 31, 2009

Braves take LaRoche off of Red Sox' Hands

Today, the Braves acquired 1B Adam LaRoche from the Red Sox for 1B Casey Kotchman

Since we covered LaRoche's trade from the Pirates to the Sox already, I won't say much more. He obviously didn't have a place after the V-Mart trade.

Kotchman was acquired last year in the Mark Teixeira deal with the Angels.

Winner: Braves

The Sox needed to do this deal because LaRoche is starting quality and they couldn't have him on the bench behind someone. So they got someone who is a little worse, but will be a GREAT bench player as he normally hits around .300. LaRoche is no doubt better than Kotchman, thats why the Braves win. The Sox did well too.

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