The trade market exploded Tuesday night with one of the weirdest, wildest blockbuster deadline deals in recent memory. Let’s grade the reported deal—headlined by three polarizing big league players—that sent the baseball world into a frenzy.
Indians acquire: OF Yasiel Puig from Reds, OF Franmil Reyes from Padres, LHP prospect Logan Allen from Padres, INF/OF prospect Victor Nova, LHP prospect Scott Moss from Reds
Reds acquire: RHP Trevor Bauer from Indians
Padres acquire: OF prospect Taylor Trammell from Reds
Grading Cleveland’s Side of the Deal
Think of it this way: The Indians have arguably the deepest starting rotation in baseball but one of the worst starting outfields, so they traded a strength to address a weakness.