Kimbrel to the Sox, K-rod to the Tigers, and Kinsler to the Bronx?

Busy, busy past couple of days in our national past time. The Red Sox have acquired Craig Krimbel form the San Diego Padres in exchange outfielder Manuel Margot(#25 ranked player in the Red Sox system), shortstop Javier Guerra(#76 in the Red Sox system), infielder Carlos Asuaje, and lefty Logan Allen. Kimbrel last season had thirty nine with a 2.58 ERA in sixty one games collecting 87/22 strike outs to walks. Margot last season for the Double A Sea Dogs had a .271 average with three homers and thirty three RBI's, and swiping thirteen bases. Guerra batted .279 with fifteen home runs and sixty eight RBI's in Single A Greenville. Asuaje in Double A batted .251 with eight homers and sixty one RBI's. Allen with two teams had a 1.11 ERA in eight games and twenty six strikes outs and only one walk. The Padres are clearly trading for the future as they have already traded Beniot to Seattle earlier last week.
In Detroit the trade for K-rod aka Francisco Rodriguez for Javier Betancourt who batted .263 with three home runs and forty eight RBI's in Single A Lakeland and also a player to be named later. The Tigers want to stack the back end of the 'pen with Joe Nathan. The Tigers also are in rumors about trading Ian Kinsler to the Yankees. That would be a great move for the bombers due to the fact that they are in desperate need of a second baseman and someone to lead off the game for them. Kinsler batted .296 with eleven homers and and seventy three RBI's in one hundred and fifty four games.

Sources( mlbtraderumors.com, baseballreference.com, espn.com, and @Ken_Rosenthal on Twitter)

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