The Trade Deadline

Koji Uehara

     
     The trade deadline. 
     A time of winners and losers. A time of hope and despair. A time when some teams' months of sports philosophy get picked apart in three seconds by a twelve year old...which is exactly what I'm about to do.
     Let's start with the Ubaldo Jimenez trade. When I first heard about the trade I immediately saw three bad things: 1. Ubaldo Jimenez has a LOSING record since the 2010 All-Star break. 2. Cleveland traded their top two prospects, Drew Pomeranz and Alex White. 3. The Indians traded five players (five!!!) to the Rockies for one Ubaldo Jimenez. Five players for one. Seriously, Chris Antonetti? What were you thinking? Another loser of the trade deadline is the Cubs but I'm not going to say why because my brother would smack me and cuz' my mom's a Cubs fan. 
     Ed Wade, general manager of the Astros, failed because of the lack of quality he got for Pence and Bourn, players I think should have gotten someone like Heath Bell or Derek Lee.  Way to go Ed Wade, you made a terrible team worse.  Congratulations. 

Hunter Pence.

     Another loser: the Yanks. You might say, "Well, they didn't trade anyone away" but see that's the thing, they needed another arm.  The best starting pitchers they have ( other than CC Sabathia) are Bartolo Colon and Freddie Garcia and those guys are like, ancient. They ought to hope the better hitters in the American league retire or something if they're gonna win the east division. I also think the Angels and the White Sox made the wrong move and didn't get anyone  because they both are good teams, but they both have good teams ahead of them in their separate divisions. I think these teams are one good bat or arm away from winning their division. Now let's move on to the trade I think will make the most difference down the stretch. That trade was the Rangers getting Mike Adams (48.2 IP, 1.13 ERA, and a 1:41 walk to strike out ratio) from the Padres and Koji Uehara (48.0 IP, 1.69 ERA and a superhuman 1:56 walk to strike out ratio) from the Orioles are a major improvement for a Rangers bullpen that has lost 19 games this year.
     Thanks for reading, and go Tigers!