Kelly / Kuhl trade
(7/14/22)
DTC Porkchop Express trades
Merrill Kelly (SP, Diamondbacks)
Chad Kuhl (SP, Rockies)
5th Round NFL
to
Win’s Up Doc for
4th Round NFL
DTC Porkchop Express trade grade: F
Win’s Up Doc trade grade: A++
Trade Summary:
This is the closest an LoL trade might have come to a veto thus far. It’s the type of trade you worry about at the end of a season-long endeavor. DTC Porkchop Express is explicitly trying to lose, and he just pawned off two SPs, both of whom are in Win’s Up Doc’s current top-7 pitchers, for next to nothing.
In order to understand how little Oat is giving up, you have to look at the Strauss Draft a little bit. DTC Porkchop Express is likely to get a top-4 Strauss Pick if he comes in last place in MLB, which means he will likely select a top-4 NBA rookie. Even if he doesn’t, he will likely try to trade up in NBA with his extra draft assets.
This means his NFL Strauss pick will be 2nd or 3rd, so when he’s trading his own NFL pick, that is probably a bottom-3 or bottom-4 NFL pick.
On the other hand, Win’s Up Doc openly needs NFL help and knows he can crush the NBA draft. Win’s Up Doc will almost certainly choose NFL with his first Strauss pick, which should end up being anywhere from NFL 6 to NFL 8. That means Doc is only dropping down 8 or 9 picks with this trade in a non-premiere round.
Kuhl and Kelly are worth more than that.