LOS ANGELES – A midseason trade should have been the easiest adjustment in the world for Giants left-hander Matt Moore.
He was 7 years old when his family moved from Florida to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, where his father, Marty, was stationed as a crew chief maintaining helicopters for the Air Force Special Operations Command. Moore spent four years there, making new friends and playing his Little League baseball at youth centers on the base, and then it was off to another new life in New Mexico.
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But no matter how practiced the art, and no matter how much getting traded is understood as part of the bargain for being a major league player, the actual act of getting dealt midseason is a jarring one.