St. Louis/Chicago

[Young Drachma]

St. Louis trades:

IF Junior Garza

Chicago trades:

IF Ponty Lopez

This is a deal where we probably give up too much. Garza is a star in the making, I mistakenly left him in the minors last year, but he's due to break out. Unfortunately for us, we've really got no place to use him except at first base where I felt he was overpriced even if he produced really well. We were woeful in the infield, Ponty's contract is almost par for Garza's (Garza's a bit cheaper) and even though Garza is a bit younger. St. Louis is clearly in win-now mode and we just needed to shore up the gaps where we have issues and so, I'm pulling this trigger fulling expecting Garza to make me regret giving him up, even as I don't doubt Ponty's talents.

[INDalltheway]

Thanks YD