Chih-Wei Hu? Really?

Really?   What does this guy bring to the table?  

So the Rays get to dump a guy they don't really like in order to clear a roster spot they need to protect prospects from the Rule 5 draft.

I get that.

Hu is expendable, we have roster spots and not a lot of guys to protect this year from the Rule 5.  

But to trade him for a prospect?   Really?    Hu played in parts of 4 different seasons at AAA (admittedly one was for only one game).   Does that sound like a 4A player to you?   It surely does to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, Turner wasn't that great of a prospect coming into the draft but his first year numbers were interesting.  He was young for his draft class, just turning 18 in August.   He played 2b, SS and CF his first year and his OPS was .744.   Basically, he was a lottery ticket but the initial returns said he was an interesting lottery ticket.

So, in two trades this winter we have stripped three interesting prospects out of our farm system for guys who don't look very interesting to me and guys who we could duplicate in free agency for their major league minimum.  

This trade was the second in a row that was non-sensical.  

You are a freakin' small market team.   Luplow, Moroff and Hu are not the kind of guys you build on.

Any day of the week I would rather have Mendoza, Thomas and Turner (and Gonzalez).

We keep ripping interesting prospects out of the bottom of our farm system and we get nothing of current or future value back.

What the heck is going on?

Tampa had their backs against the wall and we did them a favor by taking 4A player Hu off their hands so they could clear a roster spot and then handed them a legitimate prospect in Turner.   That doesn't seem like a fair trade to me.