Reds trade Cueto to the Royals

[CJD]

(07-27-2015, 05:11 PM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: It was not a great trade!  It may be an ok trade but that is yet to be determined. A friend of mine who is a lifelong KC fan was at the game in KC the day the trade was made. I informed her of it while she was at the game. Her and her family were ecstatic!! They are all very knowledgeable baseball fans and they weren't upset in the least with the players they lost to aquire JC.
That tells me plenty about this trade.

They were ecstatic because Cueto will give them a chance to win a world series and they were probably happy to give up the players to get that chance.

So to them, Cueto = World Series.

Of course they'd be thrilled with that.

But they aren't going to keep Cueto after this year.

Neither would we.

If we kept him, we'd be walked away with a comp first round pick.

These three players are better than that comp pick.

As a rental trade, we weren't going to get a #1 prospect for Cueto. That isn't how rental trades work.

So, maybe you are looking at the trade as "Great talent to KC, good talent to CIN"  and considering it uneven, but we get to keep that good talent. They lose that great talent. We weren't going to get long term great talent for short term great talent. 

I'm sorry you were unhappy that we traded a guy who wasn't going to remain on the team nor would we gain anything from him being on the team for the rest of this year, but it was a good trade, if not a great trade.

It's hard to quantify prospects because so many of them are long term and must work out in order for them to reach their potential. But I guarantee at least 1 of these players will be a solid contributor to the Reds in the next few years. I expect 2 of them to be long term Reds fixtures, either in the bullpen or in the back of the starting rotation.