Twins Acquire LHP Kevin Chapman For Danny Santana

Let's stop pretending that trades are one-sided affairs where one team "wins" and the other "loses."

As for this transaction, it's the equivalent of a minor league signing.

Often times they are.

The Twins certainly won the AJ trade, I imagine most Giants fans would say they "lost" that trade.

That was a head scratcher of a trade from the Giants perspective.  Why would you trade one MLB pitcher for a one tool catcher, let alone 2 and another with strong potential?  AJ hit for average, period.  He never hit for power as a Twin, he certainly was nothing special defensively and he certainly wasn't fast.  That's seriously right up there with the Herschel Walker trade for most lopsided in sports history.

if you can get a random ball player for a guy you were going to cut, you won. Doesn't mean the other team lost, btw......

This.

Sure.  Drew Butera was turned into Miguel Sulbaran who was turned into Eduardo Nunez who was turned into Adalberto Mejia.

 

Butera for Mejia, thus, it's a Twins' win

Butera for Castillo= Castillo for Mejia. Twins lose.

Scott Tyler and Travis Bowyer for Castillo= Tyler and Bowyer for Mejia. Twins win?

Ew

Butera for Castillo= Castillo for Mejia. Twins lose.

 

Scott Tyler and Travis Bowyer for Castillo= Tyler and Bowyer for Mejia. Twins win?

Isn't the lesson that you hold onto assets (even depreciated ones), so that you can retain future assets?   Whether the a certain team wins or loses a trade isn't the point so much as they didn't choose to wait until their given asset was worth nothing.  

My initial reaction is meh. My second reaction is both players will be lucky to survive the season with their new organizations.

 

Maybe the Twins absolute travesty of a bullpen will force them to keep Chapman around.

You've not noticed the black hole that is the Braves bench, have you? Julio Teheran pinch hit and pinch ran in back to back games between starts.