I was trying to remember that trade - Greinke (2 years of control) and Yuni Betancourt for Lorenzo Cain, Alcides Escobar, Jake Odorizzi, and Jeremy Jefress. Greinke in turn flipped a year later for Jean Segura. Odorizzi and Myers (and Mike Montgomery) got the Royals Shields and Wade Davis.
http://www.royalsreview.com/2014/6/24/5836138/the-greinke-trade-revisited
Royals gave up (2015 numbers only)Greinke (4.3 WAR)
Betancourt (out of baseball)
Odorizzi (2.2)
Myers (0.0)
Royals receivedShields (3.3)
Cain (4.9)
Escobar (3.3)
Davis (3.0)
Total given up: 5.5 WAR
Total received: 14.5 WAR
You deserve to go to the WS for spinning that straw into gold.
