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Major League Baseball saw a new trade on Thursday, something there hasn’t been much of since the coronavirus shutdown ended last month and Summer Camp training began. The Kansas City Royals sent lefty reliever Tim Hill to the San Diego Padres for outfielder Franchy Cordero and pitching prospect Ronald Bolanos, reports Jeff Passan of ESPN.
Hill was quietly strong in the rebuilding Royals’ bullpen the last two years, and he’ll now join a Padres pen that already features two stars in Kirby Yates and Emilio Pagan but recently lost lefty Jose Castillo to injury.