Scenes From An Offseason: Winter Meetings Edition
The baseball winter meetings are over, and the Twins’ activity in Nashville was restricted mostly to trading Ben Revere to the Phillies for two young pitchers.
Really, Revere and Vance Worley were about the same level – both had been in the majors about the same amount of time, and both were middling at best. Worley is about a #3 or #4 starter, while Revere is a study in extremes – he might be the fastest guy in the majors, and he might have the best glove, but he also has the least power and the worst arm. Trading the two even-up might have been fair, but the Twins got Philadelphia to throw in Trevor May, who was one of baseball’s top 100 prospects last season.
That’s a pretty good trade for Minnesota, and through the magic of fake screenplays, I looked at both sides’ possible reaction to the deal.