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Reactions: Trading Luzardo risky, but Marte is an impact gamble

Holy crap.

Not to be crude. That’s an actual term in baseball, a “holy crap trade,” a blockbuster that really gets your attention and shows that a team means business. The term is actually “holy shit trade” but I thought I’d tone down the profanity a bit.

Perhaps a true Holy Crap Trade would be even bigger than what we saw between the Oakland A’s and Miami Marlins on Wednesday, with young pitching phenom Jesús Luzardo going east in exchange for a two-month rental of excellent outfielder Starling Marte. But within the small ponds of these two perpetual underdog franchises it qualifies, not only because of the impact it can make but also because of how jarringly unexpected it was.