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Woah, didn't expect these deals to happen but it's hard not to like them, especially adding a fairly legit closer like Bradley. He was a top 10 overall draft pcik who eventually found his home in the bullpen. It's especially nice that we'll also have him available for next year. I'm admittedly a Reds homer, so I liked VanMeter but there's really not much of a spot for him on this team when we are healthy and he's struggled like crazy when we do give him some time. He might do well if somebody else gives him an extended shot. Fairchild and Naughton are pretty good prospects, but both are far from sure things and you just never know with prospects. A year ago it was looking like the Reds really blew it by dealing Shed Long. This year he's hitting .172 with an OPS+ of 48. Of course he's still only 25 (and in his age 24 season) so who knows. And I saw that SD just traded ex-Reds top prospect Taylor Trammel to Seattle in a multi-player deal which implies SD may not have been overwhelmingly enamored with him. We'll see.

Goodwin sounds like he's a replacement hybrid for Ervin and Jankowski. Ervin has crushed LHP historically, but he wasn't hitting anybody this year and Janikowski doesn't seem good at hitting LHP or RHP. They both brought some speed and defense but it sounds like Goodwin does as well while being a better hitter than either of them at this level (OPS around .800 over last year and so far this one). I think Ervin was released and Janikowski was sent to Prasco so I'm guessing Goodwin and probably Aquino will now get the opportunities that previously were going to those 3 (Ervin, Janikowski and VanMeter). Makes sense since we weren't getting much from those guys and with Senzel being out for who knows how long...