Two teams in my 12-team NL-only league made the first trade of the off-season. $25 Francisco Cordero and a 2nd round minor league pick were swapped for $10 Juan Encarnacion, $5 Rich Aurilia and $3 Noah Lowry.
All four players are entering their final years at those salary levels with the three cheap players getting the option of being signed for $5 more per year.
I wouldn't sign any of them, though, and that may be reason enough to do the trade.
At $25, Cordero is as likely to be over-priced as he is to be under-priced, but he is the closer.
Juan Encarnacion will likely produce in 2007 what he did in 2006 - 15-20 HRs, 80 RBI and a .280 AVG with an OBP that constantly draws cries from the sabremetricians to replace him.
Rich Aurilia is a quality utility player in fantasy baseball. He fits in well with whatever the Reds are doing and qualifies at 1B, SS and 3B next draft.
Noah Lowry had a great stetch in August (5-0/1.86 ERA/0.90 WHIP), but was otherwise harmful to fantasy squads. However, at $3, he is protectable if you can get someone to focus on the August performance and extrapolate from there.
A decent trade for both sides.
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