More Reaction to The Trade (News & Notes 12/13/12)

Reaction from around the league, Hernandez "close" to being a Ray and much more.

Electric Guitars and Pitching: A Review of This Week's Big Trades

In this Designated Columnist installment, Cee Angi compares last night's trade with the one Kansas City pulled off a couple of days ago.

CIN-CLE-ARZ MEGA-DEAL Comprehensive Review

Let's take a deep breath and look at how this trade affects the Indians in 2013 and beyond.

Bauer and Stubbs: Aftermath

Well, that was something.

CIN-CLE-ARZ MEGA-DEAL Quick Breakdown

This will be the quick and dirty breakdown of the three-way deal between the Indians, Reds, and Diamondbacks. The long version, energy permitting, should be on your computer screen first thing tomorrow morning.

Deal is Done: Indians Get Bauer, Albers, Shaw, Stubbs

It's official:

...new #Indians include (from ARI) RHP Trevor Bauer, RHP Matt Albers, RHP Bryan Shaw & (from CIN) OF Drew Stubbs…

— Cleveland Indians (@Indians) December 12, 2012

...ARI acq. INF Didi Gregorius (from CIN) & LHP Tony Sipp (from CLE), while CIN acq. OF Shin-Soo Choo, INF Jason Donald and cash (from CLE)

— Cleveland Indians(@tribeinsider) December 12, 2012

For those keeping score at home, here's what each team is getting:

Cincinnati: OF Shin-Soo Choo, IF Jason Donald, $3.5M

Arizona: SS Didi Gregorius, LHP Tony Sipp, 1B Lars Anderson

Cleveland: RHP Trevor Bauer, OF Drew Stubbs, RHP Matt Albers, RHP Bryan Shaw

Heyman: CIN-CLE part of deal done

Jon Heyman is reporting that Choo and Donald have been dealt to Cincinnati:

choo goes to #reds. done deal.

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) December 12, 2012

#reds also get jason donald in choo deal. working on rest. theres a lot more.

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) December 12, 2012

Most of the reports were saying that the Indians are getting shortstop Didi Gregorius and outfielder Drew Stubbs from the Reds. The second half of the deal would supposedly involve the Indians trading Gregorius to the Diamondbacks for pitching, though it's looking like the Arizona deal is much more complicated than that.

Rosenthal: Donald, Choo to CIN, CLE to get Arizona pitcher

From Ken Rosenthal:

Three-team trade, per source, will look like this: Choo, Jason Donald to #Reds, Gregorius to #Diamondbacks, Stubbs, AZ pitcher to #Indians.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 12, 2012

and...

Corbin, Skaggs and Bauer were among #Diamondbacks pitchers who were in play. #Indians would get one in this deal; Skaggs unlikely.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 12, 2012

If the deal works out as laid out here, I'd be very happy.

Hoynes: Choo Part of Potential 3-Team Deal

Paul Hoynes is tweeting that the Indians, Reds, and Diamondbacks are discussing a 3-team deal, and that Asdrubal Cabrera is not involved.

paul hoynes‏@hoynsie 3 team dealing cooking among #Indians, Reds, Arizona. Shin-Soo Choo headed to Cincy. Asdrubal Cabrera not involved as of right now.

Given what Knobler is reporting, that would probably mean Didi Gregorius would go to Arizona, and the Indians would receive pitching from Arizona.

I like this development; the Indians first and foremost need starting pitching, and if they can trade Choo for one of Arizona's young pitching prospects, that would be a really nice move.

Knobler: Indians, Reds Talking about Choo Trade

Indians and Reds are talking about a Choo-for-Stubbs/Gregorius swap.