Blockbuster Trade Announced

[theburns]

In a day of shifting personnel, the Montgomery Burns and St. Louis Bubonic Plague have agreed to a deal that will involve six players and a first round pick.

The Burns continue to export talent while the Plague make a push to a division crown in 1938.

Going to St. Louis will be veteran outfielder Ben Chapman, utility-man extraordinare Pepper Martin, catcher/outfielder Don Padgett and right handed pitcher Russ Bauers.

Coming to Montgomery will be pitcher Denny Galehouse, catcher Harry Danning (made expendable with this morning's deal for Bill Dickey) and St. Louis' first pick in the 1938 draft.

Montgomery will have three first-round picks in this upcoming draft, the first time in league history a team has accrued that many.

[theforty]

Montgomery must have MAD negotiatng skills to have pulled this deal off.

I would have thought Galehouse, or Danning, or the pick by itself would have been fair compensation for the package of four players given up, but to get all three....

[harlem]

theforty said:

Montgomery must have MAD negotiatng skills to have pulled this deal off.

I would have thought Galehouse, or Danning, or the pick by itself would have been fair compensation for the package of four players given up, but to get all three....

Perhaps you need to go to a Carnegie seminar.

[theburns]

Yes, my trades have been working out so well since 1933.

[theforty]

Well, I think you've made the best deals in the league, bar none, and suspect that there will be a pay-off.

And I do not look forward to that day, because it will make winning a pennant that much harder.