As most of you know, I’d been banging the drum for the Cubs to trade for Jeimer Candelario for more than a month before the deal finally happened Monday afternoon.
This is a very good trade for the Cubs. They acquire a player who can play a good third base, perhaps first base on occasion, hit for power, and if he’s good enough and they want to keep him, could probably have him for a couple more years at a fairly reasonable cost. The cost in prospects was, in my view, not high: DJ Herz and Kevin Made have talent, but both are fairly far from the big leagues and there’s a chance neither will ever play in MLB.