So MT Baker, the 5th place team quite in the hunt, approached me last week and asked if I'd be interested in Jeremy Hellickson.
As a $1 with an L2 contract, he's the type of guy teams in this league keep. Not just keep, but treasure! And as such, he's not the kind of guy I would even think to ask for in a trade. So this was an unexpected surprise. When he mentioned troubled Juan Pierre in the same breath as Miggy Cabrera as a potential trade, I knew we had a live one. Miggy is perhaps the best hitter in the AL, while Pierre has been a source of frustration all season, stealing only 10 bases thus far this season. I'm still a believer and expect he'll have a nice 2nd half, but OTOH, I'm happy to deal him.
The only catch? He also wanted Colby Lewis, who has been a steady source of Ks and Ws for the Skwirls since I drafted him last spring. At only $6, I wasn't happy about giving him up, but he made me an offer I that in the end, I couldn't refuse:
David Murphy ($11), Jeremy Hellickson ($1), Brett Anderson ($10 but option year, can't keep) and a #2 draft pick to the Skwirls for Juan Pierre and Colby Lewis.
In his first start as a Skwirl, Hellickson had mixed results -- he gave up 4 runs on a career-high 9 hits, but also struck out 9. He threw the ball well, and the ball seems to jump out of his hand. He could be a $1 ace for the Skwirls next year.
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