Baseball - 1st trade of the offseason

Will this be an offseason that is full of trades due to the weak free agency class? The 1st trade has been completed only a couple days after the WS.

Braves receive - (SP) Jair Jurrgens and (CF) Gorkys Hernandez
Tigers receive - (SS) Renteria

Here's my take on this:

Braves - The Braves received 2 young prospects. Dangerous situation to be in especially trading away a prospect, however, this is a great move by the Braves front office. They get rid of the 10 mil a year contract in Renteria and let Yunel Escobar play full time. They receive a young SP prospect who will contend for a starting spot this year. I consider Gorkys irrelevant because he's still very young and in low class A league. He's still at least 4-5 years away from making the big leagues.

** (out of 5) because they now go to the future and let Yunel show off his ultra prospect abilities. They also get the 2nd highly touted Tigers pitching prospect (after Andrew Miller) and deplete the ever-thinning Tigers farm/"prospect" system.


Tigers - 3 words, they have Guillen. Guillen signed a 4 year deal this past season and has done very well the past few seasons. Renteria's .330 average in 2007, to me, was a fluke. I think he'll come back down to reality and hit his usual .285 and "teen" home runs. However, they do get an additional veteran presense. Does this mean that the Tigers are possibly (very small chance) willing to move Guillen to 3B and let Inge ride the pine until another top prospect, Ryan Raburn comes into his own? Obviously, the Tigers are now willing to spend the money and if I'm correct, they are now at over 100 million with exercising I-rod's option.

* 1/2 (out of 5) because they obtained a veteran SS, but they had to give up 2 prospects (one of whom was considered an above average, not "cream of the crop, can't miss" prospect). However, I'm confused as to why they would need Renteria when Guillen has been so consistent. My only thought would be moving Renteria or Guillen to 3B, but not sure if that is reasonable.

Braves goes out on top in this trade.