I can't overstate how much the Pirates and Neil Huntington really did us and everyone else in the division a huge favor by doing the Chris Archer trade for some reason at last year's deadline. If they hadn't, this is likely a 4 horse race in the Central rather than a 3. Glasnow has finally turned the corner and turned into the ace that Archer hasn't been for years. He's out for awhile right now, but he was having a Cy Young caliber season and certainly has the ability to continue that. Oh, the Rays have him for 6 more years. Austin Meadows is really good. His OPS is something absurd in the 1.000+ Christian Yelich range. He's an OBP machine, and he hits for power. It's not a fluke, he was a top 10 pick and top prospect. He's 24. I don't know what Shane Baz is up to. It really doesn't matter, this trade was a complete and total robbery by the Rays, and that says something to be able to judge the trade that definitively only 9 months later.