Tommy Pham was traded yesterday. Or maybe today. Or maybe it hasn’t been officially announced yet. The point is, he’s headed to San Diego (so am I, actually, for the winter meetings!). And because the Rays are the Rays, it’s now time to work out whether they did what they always do and turned a nickel into two dimes. I don’t want to do it, but I don’t make the rules: when the Rays make trades, we all have to turn into financial cretins and do the cost-benefit analysis.
First, let’s start with the recent trade.