News: Brewers Trade Hardy, get Gomez
According to Tom Haudricourt of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Brewers have traded SS J.J. Hardy to the Twins for OF Carlos Gomez.
The Twins originally acquired Gomez in the Johan Santana trade. He scored the winning run against the Tigers that clinched the American League Central last month.
Update, 1:35 pm:
…you know, i wrote yesterday about Buster Olney’s suggestion that the market would create a lot of deals like this, because of how the salary arbitration system is ‘broken,’ as someone told him… yet, here we are, and the three exact guys i used as exampled, in hardy, Jeremy Hermida and Mark Teahen, all have been traded, for the exact reason olney was referring to, which is teams do not want to pay the large salary figure that will be rewarded in arbitration, and would rather trade the player to someone else who will pay it, in return for prospects, or, if all else fails, non tender then guy, be done with it, and let him be a free agent…
