Rays-Royals Blockbusta

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wil Myers, Pitching prospect Jake Odorizzi and 2 others to Rays for James Shields, Wade Davis and a PTBNL.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Good Lord, Royals. We'd have given you a LITTLE more than 2 years of 2 pitchers for the guy.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Almost like they wanted to rid themselves of Myers. But, I'll say, AL Central is easy to win. To the extent this helps the Rays longterm, it's more bad news for the MFYs so a win all around afaic. REally the MFYs are the only team that's not doing something significant in that division.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fair point. But, man... Myers AND Odorizzi (who put up decent numbers in the frigging PCL last year), both just about ready to fall off the tree.

It's like the Rays never stop reloading, and always sell high.

[Guest vtmet]

so is Selig gonna review this one like the Marlins trade?

[Frayed Knot]

vtmet wrote: so is Selig gonna review this one like the Marlins trade?

No reason to from my view; it's not like both sides aren't giving up talent in this one.

RHP Wade Davis is neither as young (27) or as highly touted (was BA top-20 a few years back) as he was coming up but presumably will go right into the KC rotation and is under team control for the next three years, while "Big Game" James Shields is probably now the Royals' #1

Rays, meanwhile, keep producing pitchers and aren't afraid to deal from their strength.
Gutsy move for both sides IMO.

[smg58]

The only issue is whether it helps the Royals enough in the short-term to justify the likely massive long-term expense. There's certainly nothing here that would warrant suspicion. The Rays got a far better haul than the Marlins did from Toronto.

So now I don't think that the Mets can settle for noticeably less from any prospective suitors for Dickey. Sure Shields is younger, but that means nothing if they're both under contract for only one year. And if Dickey's contract demands are in line with what's being reported, he's asking for less than what he's worth. I officially expect him to stay.

[Frayed Knot]

A quick trip through the prospect blogosphere sees the Royals getting kil't for this deal.
And I kind of agree --not just in the quality of prospect aspect because that stuff is all arguable and to some extent not knowable at this point-- but to the extent that it's rarely a good idea for teams coming off 72-90 seasons (particularly a whole string of them) to jump right into go-for-it mode. It's one of the reasons I resisted much of the media in jumping on the Marlins bandwagon a year ago; those all-in type of moves are what you make when you're already nearly there, not because you want to get to that point. I suppose you can argue that that's less risky in the AL Central, but still ...