Those minor league numbers are pretty sweet. Let's see what this kid can do.

Do I have to press Z now or something?

Huber was out of options for the Royals. Does he get new options as a Padre? The Padres already have a 4-A player who can't field and has no options, so I hope this doesn't mean we have two of them. If so, who's out? It would be a real bummer to give up on McAnulty at the expense of Gerut's hot spring and another dude who's is a McAnulty with a fancier reputation.

maybe Drama got in Tower's ear and P-Mac is the player to named later

Why do we need this guy? We don't have enough OF depth right now? If anything we have too much. Is this gonna take time away from Jody Gerut? Doesn't this hurt our ability to trade P-Keg's ass? I'm confused.

Expect another trade, somebody gets released, or some other major move

but we've got tons of left fielders as it is. So unless McAnulty gets moved or something I've a little confused by this trade.

The Kansas City Star says Huber is all bat and no glove. Sound like anyone we know?

Corey Brock says Huber just cost Luis Rodriguez his job.

Dayton Moore thinks Huber is a terrific person.

Just got home after listening to Craig Elston (I think?) and Jenny Cavnar on AM1360. Just thought I'd ask, does anyone expect Crabbe to be babied like Kory DeHaan or Shane Victorino? Elston was going on about how he hates the Rule V draft and how it's gonna handicap Bud Black to have Crabbe on the roster. It almost made me want to call in because I could disagree more. Crabbe played in AAA last year and was good. What more does he have to prove? Milwaukee exposed him to Rule V because they have Weeks, Counsell, Dillon and Irribarren at 2B, not because they thought Crabbe couldn't hack it. Am I expecting to much to expect the radio guys to be knowledgeable? Cavnar didn't argue (although I was impressed by her ability to talk on the radio at length about baseball without sounding lost. It's odd to hear a female voice talk about sports on the radio, no?), but I suspect she's more of a "baseball insider" than a "baseball analyst" or "baseball talk show personality". Anyway, anybody got any thoughts on the Crabbe thing?

Being a Royals fan, I've become numb to trades. (see Jermaine Dye for Neifi Perez)

I have full faith that the Royals have somehow botched this trade.

I think this is a very solid move. Huber gives us a potent right handed bat off the bench, which is something we completely lacked until KT pulled the trigger on this deal. Hopefully the PTBNL is not anyone of consequence.

Also, wow, what the hell happened to this SBNation? Crazy new format, this is. I stop reading for a mere six months and the place is damn near unrecognizable when I get back.

Were planning on putting him on waivers, but the Padres didn't want to risk losing him before he made it to them.

Yeah, he posted some big time AA and AAA numbers. Strangely underreported fact on this deal: Huber is Australian. Craig Shipley, Darren Bennett, and now this.

It seems that Edmonds will return soon, even if he starts on the DL, so what can this mean? Certainly they won't carry six outfielders (or three first basemen). Either McNulty or Gerut are on the way out, as someone said, or they think it'll be easier to sneak someone through waivers after the season starts.