The Birth of Castellanos

Aug 29:  Team 4 (Jim McCullough) reported trading 456 Evan Longoria to team 8 (#####*****) for 388 Adrian Gonzalez; 477 Lonnie Chisenhall; 479 Nick Castellanos.

Nicolas Castellanos

In 2010, I traded with another fantasy team owner principally to obtain Castellanos.  The key reason for this was because I had no future at 3rdbase. 

It was also to facilitate a trade for Adrian Gonzalez, having only 1 National League player ( we are allowed to own 2 crossovers ). This trade solve many of my problems way back when, and the other owner was ecstatic at trading for Longoria. Win Win.

Long story short, my pitching failed me once again, but I finished second.But alas out of the playoffs.

Seasons come and go, and Castellanos proves I was wrong in selecting him as my 3rd sacker of the future, as Detroit converts him to the outfield, then proceeds to fall on hard times. So, in July of 2019, the Detroit Tigers do him and myself a huge favour and trade him to the Chicago Cubs, where he begins a second half for the ages, a doubles machine, and power coming out of his ying yang.

Casty was due to be a free agent, you see, and as Detroit was in a heavy rebuild mode, the juicy morsel that was Castellanos was tantalizing for Chicago who were seeking a bat to add in their line up.  Enter Nick.
Coming up short, the Cubs dismissed Castellanos but kept the door open to a short term low number deal, but had moved on.
This left the outfielder without an employer,for the first time in his adult life. Texas, St.Louis and Cincinnati reached out and the dance began. Who would make the right offer, who would sign the doubles machine.

Onto to 2020 we trudged, Ozuna signing, scarce pickings left, but there's Nicky , the doubles machine still on the market. 

And oh, by the way, I went through 6 other 3rd baseman before landing Vladimir Guerrero jr. in the 2017 draft. 
But back to Castellanos, he was the MVP on fantasy team in 2019, no question about it, as he was only hitting .273 when traded at the deadline, then went onto hit .289, to end the season, a stark rise in his batting average.

All in all, a success story, now signing a 4 yr deal with Cincinnati, to patrol their outfield, and hopefully continue to be doubles machine.  After all he led the majors with 59 2 baggers last year.

Go get em' Casty !