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Tampa Bay Rays news and links: Revisiting the Shields-Myers trade

Over at Beyond the Box Score, Luis Torres wrote a large trade retrospective about the trade that sent James Shields, Wade Davis, and Elliot Johnson to Kansas City, and brought Wil Myers, Jake Odorizzi, Mike Montgomory, and Patrick Leonard to the Rays.

I don’t think it provides anything new to those who followed the Rays closely at the time of the trade and since, and it doesn’t factor in the contributions of Steven Souza Jr., or any other second-generation progeny of the trade, but it’s a good overall look, especially with how Torres tries to get into the headspace of both teams at the time, rather than to rely on 20-20 hindsight.