The best prospect of the lot is the PTBNL, or the guy expected to be named later: supplemental ’09 first-rounder Tyler Skaggs. The reason he’s not named yet is he hasn’t put in a full pro season since signing, but he’s generally assumed to be the player getting named later in this deal. Just 19 years old after getting selected out fo Santa Monica High School last summer, he’s very long-bodied, standing 6’4″ to 6’5″, with a long arm as well as what I’d call long arm action. Currently, he’s throwing 88-91 with his fastball, but it’s expected that he’ll touch 92 more consistently as he matures. That’s decent for a lefty, but the key pitch in his curve, a true 12-to-6 pitch with a lot of late down break. He’s got outstanding command and control for his age. It’s the curveball that makes you say he could be a solid No. 3 in a big-league rotation—if everything works out—as it was one of the better breaking balls in the Midwest League this year.

Seems like a terrible, terrible deal for the Diamondbacks …

I was ok with giving up Montero for Lee, legitimate aces don’t grow on trees. Giving him up for a reliever however, even one as good as Soria, I am totally against.

this is good old fashioned salary dump. Which is totally fine, lets just not give Reagins props for laying in the weeds and making some kind of brilliant strike…his brilliance was in picking up the tab.

booby valentine (who is a much more positive person than i thought he would be on tv) said he thought the angels would flip haren for offense – i thought that to be a bit weird.