When the lockout ended, one of the big storylines that people around baseball were waiting for was the fire sale from the Athletics. With a handful of players getting expensive in arbitration and an ownership who refuses to spend money, there are a lot of good players in the Bay Area who could be shipped out. The first deal came on Saturday, with Chris Bassitt being traded to the Mets in exchange for pitching prospects J.T. Ginn and Adam Oller.
Bassitt is entering the final year before free agency and will be heading into his age-33 season, which certainly cuts into his value to some extent, but this still seems like a good grab for New York from where I’m sitting.