The Cincinnati Reds made headlines Thursday with two big trades in which they parted with two of their five starting pitchers from the 2014 season.
The Reds' first move, as reported by Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal, was to send Alfredo Simon to the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers' Twitter account announced that the team had acquired Simon in exchange for shortstop Eugenio Suarez and right-handed pitcher Jonathon Crawford. The second deal, broken again by Rosenthal, involved potential ace Mat Latos heading to Miami in exchange for prospects Anthony DeSclafani and Chad Wallach.
The moves were made in an effort to free up payroll to either bring in a left fielder (maybe Michael Morse or Norichika Aoki?) or to help sign Johnny Cueto to a long-term extension—or both!
Either way, these two deals will have a major impact on the Reds' immediate and long-term future, so it's important to know what they got back for those two rotation pieces, yes? Yes.
So beginning with Suarez, here are scouting reports for each of the four players the Reds acquired on the final day of the winter meetings.
All stats courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com unless otherwise noted.
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