Tuesday night the Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees completed a trade that sent Brandon Drury to New York, prospects to Tampa and Steven Souza Jr. to Arizona.
The Yankees fill their need at third base, the Rays continued their rebuild efforts and the Diamondbacks found someone to fill the JD Martinez sized hole in right field.
The deal was especially important for Arizona, as they try to remain in the playoff picture after winning 93 games last season. Martinez, as we know, signed with Boston earlier this week and in doing so, left the Diamondbacks searching to replace the 30 home runs and 65 RBI he brought over from Detroit back in July.
So Arizona did the best they could and brought in Souza, who hit 30 homers of his own with 78 RBI. Now, granted this was over 148 games, which isn’t quite as good as Martinez’s full-season output, but Souza is still a fine player that will provide Arizona with the thump they need to stay relevant.