Ben Cherington trying to shore up Boston's bullpen pre-2012 is one of my favourite sequence of moves of all time:
- trades Josh Reddick for Andrew Bailey
- trades Jed Lowrie for Mark Melancon
- overacts to bad luck in April and demotes Melancon to AAA
- trades Melancon for Hanrahan
To be clear, I don't think either should have been traded. I wouldn't have traded either. I just think the idea that they would have declined a trade to be absurd.
That's silly. They both had significant financial incentive for accepting a trade, possibly as much as $10+M. Rejecting a trade would have been incredibly stupid.
Is there a reason why yahoo decided to use IR+ in hockey, but chooses to ruin fantasy baseball playoffs by not having a DL+, or is it just general yahoo incompetence?