Also delt Upton, Melvin. As key a factor as any positive asset.
It's a lot of bad luck with the trades and FAs. Retrospect it is obvious but at the time it wasn't black and white against with hardly any move.
Even the Elvis Andrus thing now as the #1 hated loss at the time is hard to get...
A confluence of circumstances led to this being a trade maybe worth doing.
Uggla finds the bottom of the barrel. Then punches though it.
BJ is terrible anywhere but 8th
Medlen and Beachy go down. Spend to replace on Ervin.
The questions about the roster had a more glass half full feel to...