Sao Paulo / Black Forest trade.

[Coop]

Black Forest sends RP Fouad Khair al din (AA) to Sao Paulo for SP Alex Burgos (ML).

[CaseyBlakeDeWitt]

Confirmed.

Huck, could you call up Urbano Lindt and put him into Burgos' slot in the rotation? Thanks.

[Coop]

And please put Burgos into my ML rotation in place of bin Wakil, who needs to go back to Triple-A (taking his 7.11 ERA with him).

[Coop]

An update ... in my latest export I went ahead and sent Baz bin Wakil back down to Triple-A, leaving a hole in my ML starting rotation in order to make it easier to find a place for Alex Burgos.  And by the way, I see that Burgos is 0-6 this year with a 5.24 ERA.  So he should feel right at home among the other guys in my starting rotation. 

[CaseyBlakeDeWitt]

I suspect your ballpark will help his home run rate and his walk rate should be stabilizing at some point too. Plus, hard to get wins when my team is sucking.

[Coop]

Yeah, I'm just kidding around.  Certainly I expect him to do better than he's been doing or I wouldn't have traded for him.

My rotation has put up some ugly numbers this year, but a large part of the blame rests with the defense, which has been a problem this year, and I'm not sure why; the defensive ratings of the guys in the starting lineup look pretty good to me.  But anyway, to address the problem I recently promoted Jim Alexander, a centerfielder with a 9 defensive rating.  Hopefully that helps.  It also means that the first guy I ever drafted, centerfielder Indradu Minakshi, is now on the bench.  He looked good early in his career and was supposed to have 5-star potential but it's been all downhill for him the last 2-3 years.  He missed an entire season with an injury, which probably had a lot to do with his decline.  That's the way it goes.  Some guys make it and some guys don't.

[Huckleberry]

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