Last year, my Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t the best hitting team in the Illowa APBA League. They didn’t have the best pitching staff either. But dang if they didn’t have the best middle infield the IAL had ever seen. It’s not often you see a SS-10 and a 2b-9 on the same team.
And now they’re both gone.
I’ve already told you about my blockbuster deal that shipped Troy Tulowitzki across town to the Rising Bamm Beanos. Now, the T-Chix say goodbye to long time secondbaseman Orlando Hudson. The funny part? He was traded straight up for Vernon Wells, a APBA Blog Terrible Card Tuesday nominee.
And you what? Mascot Chuck the Chicken is happy with the deal and so am I.
The key to the deal was that O-dog was pretty expendable. With my pickup of Jason Kipnis and Danny Descalso last year, my infield needs have been taken care of and Hudson would be riding the pines most of the year. A 2B/3B still commands a bit of value on the trade market so I put him up for sale and had a couple offers. While Vernon Wells is no Tyler Colvin, he’s a OF-3 and plays enough of the season to help out my beleaguered outfield which is suffering from “de-Markakisizing”.
As for Hudson, we wish him well. He’ll be playing for Don Smith’s Molly Putts Marauders and he knows how to treat old players. :)
As an epilogue to my Tulowitzki-Reyes deal, you’ll notice that I’ve made Reyes get a haircut.
