The Bandits were active at the trade deadline. Even though they had a good lead at the top of their division, the Bandits GM really want to add a quality arm in the rotation. Therefore they decided to trade their extremely popular, Centerfield Gordon "Spring" Thornton, who had a hard time to perform to his expected level in the last two years. Along with Thornton, Ray Brady a valuable MR and their top prospect Alfredo Villalobos take their glove to Las Vegas, the finalist of the last world series.
In return, two Bob's arrive in town. The most important one is Bob Rudyard, rank #9 SP in the league. A left-handed starter who have an amazing era of 1.89 in Las Vegas, a hitter friendly park. To replace Thornton, Bob Reece also arrive in Montreal. He will share the load with Greg Forrest at the Centerfield position. Finally 22 years old Chris Mills will close game in AAA.
This gives Montreal a very good rotation with Raul Perez, Austin Brown, Bob Rudyard, Ray Clay and Scott McGuicken, and three good starters for the playoff.
For sure, Montreal got older and lost a top prospect, but we have some depth at the catcher position. We really want to defend our title. Now we need to control playing time of all the players to arrive in the playoff as healthy as possible.
Go Bandits....
