After to-ing and fro-ing pretty much all season and with the deadline fast approaching, we finally pull the switch on this swap with the Sens.
In a perfect world, we would have held onto Bevens for one more year then traded him, as he drops off the cliff fairly quickly, and this trade would have involved Mickey Haefner and a couple other dispensable guys. But we just couldn't swing it. The crux here was to get something for Heintzelman before letting him walk at year-end, and Hutchinson is a guy I've had my eye on for some time. He's locked down until 1949 on a reasonable deal and should hold his form much better than Bevens, who is three years his senior as well. Another one of our young arms, Monte Kennedy, gets his first crack at the bigs.
Anderson is a cheap insurance policy at catcher, with Batts no guarantee of coming on as we want or as quickly as we need and Tresh never really up for MLB duties anyway - he'll get sent down then let walk come October. Sturgeon, while no star, offers us better IF flexibility moving forward in a backup role, dependent upon him being re-signed as he is an imminent FA.