Sometimes what’s old is new again.
On December 19, 2010, the Milwaukee Brewers traded outfielder Lorenzo Cain and shortstop Alcides Escobar along with pitchers Jake Odorizzi and Jeremy Jeffress – both hurlers being prospects at the time – to the Kansas City Royals for Cy Young winner Zack Greinke. Fast forward to the present, Cain and Jeffress are now suddenly crucial to Milwaukee’s continued success in 2019.
This next part starts off in a similar fashion but takes a handful of different turns after that.
Almost two weeks before that Greinke trade, on December 6, 2010, the Brewers sent top prospect Brett Lawrie to the Toronto Blue Jays for starting pitcher Shaun Marcum.