Twins Trade Garcia To Yankees For Two Pitching Prospects

I like that Fangraph comp to Radke, although I have no idea how realistic/likely that is.

Colon has to be done after today, right? Gibson plus Enn or some other auditioning starter, right? Edit: oh yeah, Santiago... let's hope he gets healthy and dealt in August?

What contender would want Santiago? Waste of time. If necessary, just promote a AAA player for the playoff push instead....

Garcia's tenure still can't beat Joel Zumaya's and all 13 warmup pitches that came with him.

Wow, I really like this trade. Trading essentially Ynoa and $4M for Littell and Enns is a solid deal. Littell has some solid upside in the rotation and Enns has a chance to be a major leaguer, though I'm not as high on him as some are. Great trade.

I have to imagine Gibson takes Garcia's spot in the rotation. Maybe Enns/Gonsalves could take Colon's spot sooner than later?

I read thru this and Twins "may" have taken the Yankees in a trade, flipped a good pitcher after one start, some happiness with the Twins' front office...

 

This is the Twins, that I have been a fan at 8 yrs. old and Twins Daily Site??????????

Feels like another alternate Universe that involves no math  

 

 

Math was involved: $4,000,000,000.

I like this deal a lot. Littell has a great curve, low 90's fastball and is developing a slider that i heard is near unhittable at times. That to me sounds like a solid #3 / #4. Plus he's 21 and is up in AA ball. If thats true then this is a great find. Enns looks appears to be a solid reliever type and he has 4 pitches. Very positive trade from this FO, feeling good vibes.

Now lets see what we can get for Kintzler and Santana. You don't have to trade them but if they can get a couple of very solid SP prospects close to the majors AA or higher i will feel a lot better heading into 2018 and 2019. Exactly the kind of moves this franchise needs to inject some quality pitching prospects into the minors without having to trade away any of the core offensive players at the majors. Perhaps i was wrong about Falvey and Levine.

Colon has to be done after today, right? Gibson plus Enn or some other auditioning starter, right? Edit: oh yeah, Santiago... let's hope he gets healthy and dealt in August?

We can only hope.

This is a major shift in previous years when we simply laid down before the deadline. Good to see management making moves to restock our depleted farm system.

Pohlads need to get some credit.  They bought a couple prospects who are close to ready.

I think they often get a bad rap.  They probably just need a FO team they can trust to explain why these moves are good investments.

And it is an investment.

Math was involved: $4,000,000,000.

Apparently you misunderstood the math by 1000 times.

Apparently you misunderstood the math by 1000 times.

Rounding error for the Yankees budget.

3 too many zeros there! Unless it was an Austin Powers reference?

No, I'm not that smart. 

Evidently, once I started putting in zeros, I didn't know when to stop.

This makes up for the drafting of Kohl Stewart, who is not a good pitcher.

What was the point of trading for a pitcher only to trade him away after one good start?

What was the point of trading for a pitcher only to trade him away after one good start?

Because there was no point in keeping him after the last week.

Because there was no point in keeping him after the last week.

Especially if you can (potentially) get more in return than what you gave up.

What was the point of trading for a pitcher only to trade him away after one good start?

If it were me, I would have waited until after the Dodgers series to decide whether to buy or sell.

But you know what? The Twins upgraded the team by doing this, they were smart not to wait. The two moves together are masterful. They showed some elite sophistication not seen in these parts since the Pierzynski trade.

If they trade any other veterans I hope they eat additional cash to up the prospect return.