Much digi-ink has been spilled over the trade that brought outfield prospect Taylor Trammell to San Diego in advance of this July’s trade deadline.
It won’t do much good to hash out the opposing viewpoints of the deal, which sent fan favorite Franmil Reyes one way, Trevor Bauer another way, and the fleet-footed Trammell into a charter bus headed for the Padres affiliate in Amarillo, Texas.
There are people who believe Reyes is a one-dimensional player who needed to be cleared; there are people who believe the Padres should have been the team making the play for Bauer, not the Cincinnati Reds; there are those that bemoan the move altogether, whether because of Reyes’ potential or Trammell’s shaky performance in the Cinncinatti org this year.