Capital City Ironmen sends: SP Tom Koehler (FA)
We Talk Fantasy Sports sends: 3B Renato Nunez (minors)
Andrew’s thoughts: This one’s kinda boring, but whatever, I wanted to make a deadline day deal.
After picking him up from free agency, I had started Tom Koehler nine times for 30.33 points per start (273 points). That’s quite good. The key is starting him at home and against weaker opponents. WTFS is still clawing for a playoff spot and with Jordan Zimmermann making only one start before returning to the DL, they really needed the arm for the stretch run. For their circumstances, I really like that Koehler was even on their radar. He makes perfect sense for their need, both in terms of what he offers their lineup and what his acquisition cost was.
Koehler was going to be $5 next year and while that’s a reasonable price to keep pretty much any SP you can get mileage out of, I decided to just cash out for an interesting cost controlled prospect at a position of need. Renato Nunez plays 3B now but could end up at 1B in Oakland. He’s not had a great season, but he’s spent all of 2017 at AAA (so he’s close), has some pop, and was the 61st player off the board in our prospect draft. The latter means pretty much nothing, but shows that he was a fairly coveted prospect in the not too distant past. He’s a borderline top-100 guy. I liked the prospect and felt like making a swap.
Jordan’s thoughts: Tom Koehler gets more love here than he does at home on Thanksgiving. Good grief.