Press release from the Reds <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>CINCINNATI - Cincinnati Reds Executive Vice President and General Manager Wayne Krivsky today announced the acquisitions of RHP Edinson Volquez and minor league LHP Danny Herrera from the Texas Rangers in exchange for OF Josh Hamilton. Volquez, 24, last season won the Nolan Ryan Pitcher of the Year Award as the best minor league pitcher in the Rangers' organization. In 26 starts at Class A Bakersfield, Class AA Frisco and Class AAA Oklahoma he went 14-6 with a 3.67 ERA while allowing minor league opponents to hit just .190 overall. He also went 2-1 with a 4.50 ERA in 6 starts for Texas. Among Rangers farmhands in 2007, Volquez ranked first in strikeouts (166 in 144.2 innings), second in victories and fifth in ERA. He entered 2007 rated by Baseball America as the third-best prospect in the organization. Following the season he was ranked as the 13th-best prospect in the entire Pacific Coast League. Herrera, 23, was selected by the Rangers in the 45th round of the June 2006 first-year player draft. He was named by Baseball America as a 2006 Draft First-Year All-Star after posting a 1.45 ERA in 5 starts and 12 relief appearances for the AZL Rangers and Class A Bakersfield. He spent most of last season, just his second in professional baseball, at Class AA Frisco and went 5-2 with a 3.78 ERA in 34 relief appearances. Hamilton, 26, last season for the Reds hit .292 with 19 HR and 47 RBI in 90 games. He was on the disabled list twice.</div> Hamilton is very talented, but the Reds needed pitching.
Good deal for the Reds. Hamilton has health issues with his stomach, and I like Volquez' ceiling over Hamilton's anyway.. Herrera could have been anybody and the trade would have been no different.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kid Chocolate @ Dec 23 2007, 02:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Who's gonna start in CF for the Reds now?</div> Freel and Hopper will get first dibs and there is Jay Bruce in the minors.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cpawfan @ Jul 24 2008, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Now that we are past the All Star break, how has this trade worked out for both teams?</div> I haven't heard anything.
