Trade Deadline Recap

The MLB Trade Deadline has come and past. As anticipated, this season's trade deadline was very active and included some trades that were confusing, bad, good, long awaited, and surprising.

I'd like to hand out my awards

Biggest Winner: Red Sox 

Between their Acquisition of Victor Martinez and Adam LaRoche (which turned into Casey Kotchman), they have juiced *NPI* their line-up to the point that they are overflowing with All-Stars. They could have used another Starter, but Beckett, Wakefield, Lester, and others will carry on just fine.

Runners Up: Phillies, Mariners

Biggest Loser: Pirates

They have lost 4 very good players. They gained mediocre minor leaguers with very little upside. I feel so sorry for Pirates fans. It's very hard for me to give sympathy to another fan base considering I root for the Orioles

Runners Up: Indians, Pirates again (yes, they are here twice because they were THAT bad)

Best Trade For Both: Tigers acquire Washburn for French and Robles

The Tigers get one of the best pitchers in the A.L. this season for future Rotation Starters. The AL West is going to be one tough division next season (except for the A's who keep going backwards)

Runners Up: Rolen for Encarnacion, Peavy to Sox

Biggest Bargain: Cliff Lee to Phillies

The Phillies went from having to give up their 2 best Pitching Prospects for Halladay to giving up lower ranked prospects for the reigning A.L. Cy Young and the league leader in Quality Starts

Runners Up: Sanchez to Giants, Wilson to Mariners, LaRoche to BoSox, LaRoche to Braves

Biggest Surprise: Peavy To White Sox

No surprise on Biggest surprise. Everyone was waiting upon news on Halladay or Adrian Gonzalez. Ever since Peavy got hurt earlier this season, everyone besides his fantasy owners forgot about him due to the state of the Padres. This move was the perfect encore to a great month of trading. Right around the 4pm deadline, the trade was announced. The most surprising thing about this trade was that Peavy let it through. He didn't let it through a couple months ago, I guess realizing how bad the Padres actually are opened his eyes.

Runners Up: Halladay not moved, Pirates trading away everyone

Conclusion

It was a very cool deadline in my mind. Besides the Pirates looking ridiculous, I think all the teams made personal strides and it was very fun.

I end S.O.S.'s coverage of the MLB Trade Deadline with this statement:

Toronto overplayed the Halladay drama more than Pete Rose plowing through home plate in the All Star Game.