Oakland Trades:
SP Deolis Guerra - 5.0 spec - MLC
Washington Trades:
3B Ryan Zimmerman - 5.0 spec - $300k
Guerra is definitely nice if he develops, but he's light years away. Zimmerman is a rare commodity in that he plays excellent D at 3B and has good offensive ratings. Look at the other stud 3B specs/young guys...they all suck at D except LaRoche (Zimmerman is slightly better) and Cabrera (isn't available). Also knowing that my 1st pick in real life for this draft is a SP should off-set the loss of Deolis a little. And then the Harden deal looks like this...3B Zimmerman, CF/RF Gomez, and SP Pelfrey...all of which are either ready or very close to ready (which should make Zito happy as he said he was surprised I didn't get closer to ready pieces). Gomez and Pelfrey will probably be up at some point this year...definitely next year for sure.