Royals/Braves trade

[Braves GM (Dave)]

Atlanta Braves trade:

17th rounder Gabriel Mejia, who can't find a home
Brett Anderson, who shouldn't have a home because of his injury track record
1.5 M for the life of Anderson's contract

to Kansas City Royals for:

28th (832)
34th (1012)
40th (1192)

Rationale: I paid too much for Brett Anderson, because it was early in the auction and I didn't know what I was doing.  Actually, I really didn't know what I was doing later in the auction either, but at least I wasn't overpaying for guys.  I had just picked up Mejia as a throw in in the Pujols/Smith deal, when Ryan reached out to me about him.  Therefore, I found a way to remove Anderson's contracts from my team and not break the bank.  Who knows what I'll land with the draft picks, but I definitely could use more depth.      

[Royals GM (Ryan)]

**Brett Anderson SP LAD 4,000,000 2020 (1,500,000 per year covered)**


Mejia is a guy I own in multiple other leaves and love the upside. For some stupid reason I had left him lower down my draft board than I anticipated and when his name came off the board, I was pissed at myself. I have him now though and that's what matters. Maybe an overpay in picks for him, but Anderson at 2.5M/yr is in reality not that bad. He's a decent back end starter and 2.5M is easily within my cap space (which I left plenty of after the draft

[Rockies GM (Jeff Bridich)]

Processed the draft picks portion of this, Justin will have to do the rest when he has time.


Jeff Bridich

[A's GM (Justin - Commissioner)]

Processed.