Wily Mo? Bronson: Go.

Goodbye, Saturn Balls.  Hello, Wily Mo.

Gotta say, I love this trade right now.  To take their starting pitching surplus, a surplus so huge that it became a negative, and turn it into a guy as talented as Peña is a huge coup.  At worst, Peña fills the righty side of the RF platoon, and uses the Monstah to his advantage.  At best, he's a 30-HR guy who is an offensive upgrade over Trot Nixon... provided he learns to act like a man instead of belly-aching.  They may have had more pressing needs that could have been filled, but the longview on the trade is protection against Nixon's likely departure in free agency.  Furthermore, Cincinnati ends the Peña/Kearns debate conclusively, and finds themselves a solid 15-win starter.  Everybody wins.

Well, almost everybody.  I feel bad for Arroyo, because he wanted to stay.  The Sox clearly screwed him... he signed a three-year deal for significantly less money in order to stay in Boston.  He clearly thought a) Wells would be traded, and b) Clement would be more likely to get canned than Arroyo given the salary considerations, moreso given that Arroyo signed for just over 1/3 of Clement's annual price.  And he genuinely liked being here, which says something.  Finally, we lose Saturn Balls, the best nickname on the team.  So it isn't exactly a celebration, bitches.  Another 2004 hero bites the dust.

But at the same time, the writing has been on the wall since the emergence of Pap last fall.  And it's clearly the right baseball move to move Arroyo elsewhere, since he's the worst of the seven starters.  He'll have ample opportunity to establish himself as a as a top-3 starter in Cincy, given that his colleagues (Aaron Harang, Eric Milton) ain't exactly Beckett and Schilling.

So happy trails, Saturn Balls, and good luck.  I hope you make the National League lick 'em.