In which I strap on my asbestos underwear, and dig in to finding a rationalization for yesterday's deal.
First things first, and bold font please. I do not like this trade. I would far rather we hung onto Touki Toussaint, ate the money we owed Bronson Arroyo and continued on. However, it is very easy for people to condemn it, when it is not their $10 million being handed to a 38-year-old pitcher with an elbow which, according to reports, is no better than it was before Tommy John surgery. So, if you want to blame anyone, it should probably be Kevin Towers, for signing Arroyo to the multi-year deal which, it appears, made yesterday's trade necessary as far as new management was concerned.