I have to hand it to my boss. He apparently keeps the hours of an insomniac. Eric Schmidt broke the Hanley Ramirez story on our network before most people were done dreaming about winning the lottery. Leave it to the boss to show the rest of us how it was done. I had planned on breaking the story to you, but instead I will simply provide some analysis of this transaction.
Quite simply, I’m still scratching my head and I found out about it two hours ago. With the new rules in the collective bargaining agreement, there will be a ton of activity. We’ve already seen the kind of activity we expect on the 31st and that date is a little less than a week away. Goodness knows what’s going to happen on that day when teams are really up against it. In every trade so far I could honestly see the thinking from both sides and that thinking made sense. I’m struggling to find it here.
The Dodgers’ end makes perfect sense. They get a player who can handle short until Dee Gordon returns ...
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July 26, 2012
