Good trade for the Cardinals. Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas. Bad trade for Cincinnati. Greg Everson for Jerry Don Gleaton. Now, though, baseball trades have more detours than I-70 through Kansas.
Nothing is as it appears.
And I'm here to tell you it was a great trade for Kansas City. Not a good trade. A great one. He's a hired gun. He will become a free agent next year, and if you think there was even the slightest chance he was going to come back to Kansas City, well, I'll meet you out in the woods later for a little snipe hunting.