Last week, we had a Starting Nine article ready to go, in which most of the Crawfish Boxes writers blurbbed short* thoughts on the trade sending five staring pitchers to Phillies in exchange for reliever Ken Giles and a shortstop to the Houston Astros.
*except for Idrees, who wrote the blogging equivalent of War and Peace.
Originally, the trade reportedly comprised of Giles in return for four prospects: pitchers Brett Oberholtzer, Vincent Velasquez, Thomas Eshelman, and outfielder Derek Fisher. As the days dragged by, we continued to collect responses for that Starting Nine article, waiting for the official trade announcment.