MLB trading deadlineJayston Stark wrote an entertaining and informative column the other day breaking down the Winners and Losers after the Major League Baseball trading deadline passed. The biggest winner was, of course, the Boston Red Sox. The BoSox traded for the four best pitchers available during the MLB season, and if the sports talk on their flagship radio station is to be believed, the Red Sox may have finally closed their talent gap with the Yankees. Jayson's sources tell him that "if you stack up the Red Sox against the Yankees right this second," said one AL scout, "Boston is the better team. But how it plays out, we'll see. Hey, they're still the Red Sox." But he's probably a Yankees fan, isn't he Pete? The best line of the column comes in the section dedicated to the Oakland Athletics: They almost traded for Reggie Sanders and Juan Gonzalez. They made a run at J.D. Drew. But in the end, the A's traded two pitchers they'd soured on (Aaron Harang and Joe Valentine) for the hottest bat out there, Jose Guillen, even though it's clear, from his microscopic career walk totals, that Guillen never read "Moneyball." If you're a baseball fan who cares about the business of baseball then Moneyball is a *must* read. |
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