"Source tells me #Brewers have traded SS Alcides Escobar, CF Lorenzo Cain, and RHP Jeremy Jeffress for RHP Zack Greinke, SS Betancourt + $2M."
Here's what I think:
- Good for the Brewers, if it's true. This would give them a rotation of Grienke, Shaun Marcum, Yovani Gallardo, and Randy Wolf. That's the NL Central's version of NASTY. Watch out for both Greinke and Marcum moving to the National League.
- Not sure the Brewers would have any position player prospects left in the entire system. I think they'd be officially tapped out.
- Did the Royals get enough in this deal? Lorenzo Cain is a decent prospect who had a good 1/4 season in the majors, but he's also the same guy who hit .218/.294/.330 in the minors in 2009. Alcides Escobar was hyped pretty hard before last year, and has a ton of speed and potential, but also hit .235/.288/.326.
- The prospect jem in this trade for the Royals has to be RHP Jeremy Jeffres, a 2006 first-round draft pick who was converted into a reliever last year in the minors, and showed the potential to dominate. He came up late in the year and did the same at the big league level.
According to Roch Kubatko on his blog School of Roch, the Brewers also included 20 year-old RHP prospect Jake Odorizzi in the deal. Odorizzi is a former 1st round pick (2008), and went 7-3 with a 3.43 ERA and 10.1 K/9 in 120 IP last year in Low-A ball.
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