Big Trade (And Tony too...)

Last night, the Smurfs and the Tones pulled off a preseason trade where the Tones sent David Wright and Jose Reyes to the Smurfs for Alex Rodriguez and a 15th round pick.

In order to trade for Alex Rodriguez, the Tones released keeper rights to Albert Pujols and kept David Wright. This means Albert Pujols is available to be drafted on March 23.

To get an idea what this does to Tony, here is his keeper review.

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Keeper Review – Tones

Chosen Keepers
Alex Rodriguez
Johan Santana

Draft Picks Lost
1st and 28th round pick. (Gained 15th round pick via trade with Smurfs)

Last Year Fantasy Point Total (position rank)
Rodriguez – 709 (1)
Santana – 661 (4)

Players Not Kept of Note
Victor Martinez
Albert Pujols
Ichiro Suzuki
Felix Hernandez
Jon Lester

Thoughts:

Hmm… keep Alex Rodriguez and Johan Santana and give up David Wright and Jose Reyes. Ok. Interesting. I’m personally okay with this trade for two reasons: I’m not high on David Wright as a top producing fantasy player and I am all for forcing Andrew into passing on Albert Pujols with the first pick. For those who don’t know, Pujols may have Tommy John surgery due to a bad tendon in his throwing elbow. He is going to try to play without the surgery, but that elbow could go at any time. It could also not go and Pujols could go off for 50 home runs and 150 RBI. Either way, I’m interested to see how far he falls. ($10 says Joel picks him. Idiot. Keep Granderson fool!)

As for the players actually kept, Santana is only the games best pitcher, in a pitchers park, in a pitchers league. Oh, and did I mention he plays for the best team in his league? Oh, sorry I forgot that. Uhg…

It is safe to say that Alex Rodriguez will have a big season, this is for certain. How big that season is will rely on Rodriguez’ adjustment to the pressure of New York fans who are bitter about him opting out of his contract. Rodriguez is nearing the end of his prime (he’ll be 32 this season) so it will be interesting to see if there is any noticeable drop off in his performance.

It should be noted that the trade for AROD was made possible by a midseason trade last year by one ANDREW WESSLEY. So kudos to ANDREW WESSLEY who lives at 1965 S MAPLE TREE LANE and SLEEPS on the FIRST ROOM DOWN THE HALL TO YOUR RIGHT. Andrew decided to trade Tony both Albert Pujols AND Jose Reyes for what ended up being nothing (by nothing I mean Todd Helton). God I hate you Andrew…

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