Red Reposter - A shrewd trade and Winker shreds plays

Yesterday the Reds finalized a shrewd trade, sending Dylan Floro, Zach Neal, and some international bonus pool cash for James Marinan and Aneurys Zabala. It really isn’t a big game-changing kind of trade or anything, but the front office deserves a ton of credit for leveraging some low-value assets into some high-value assets. Let’s break it down.

Floro was signed by the Reds this off-season on a minor-league deal, so the cost of acquiring him was basically zero (or as cheap as a player can possible be). Neal was acquired just a few months ago when the Reds sent Ariel Hernandez to the Dodgers after giving him the ol’ DFA. The international bonus pool money is basically valueless to the Reds…