From Trent:
Jocketty on the Junior trade:
From the conference call:
Kenny Williams contacted Jocketty yesterday about noon, they completed the agreement by the end of the Reds' game, but then it was up to Griffey and Brian Goldberg. That was completed this morning.
Williams approached them first.
As for if it had anything to do with the Brantley incident: "No, absolutely not."
Here's what I thought was the most interesting response, when asked about this impacting Dunn's future:
"It gives us an opportunity to look at what our future can be, bring Jerry Hairston back a day early. Move Jay Bruce to right, Dunn in left and see how that outfield makeup works as we evaluate our club for the future."
Jocketty said he was surprised when the White Sox called.
He also said there were other talks, but nothing that fit and he was surprised there was relatively little mvoement league-wide.
As for the two players, he said they were both guys he'd liked for a while, and they'd watched Richar when he was in Arizona's system.
Also, Masset will start in the bullpen, but could also start.
"Intitally we’ll use him as a reliever. We don’t’ have a lot of depth at pitching. If we had something happen to one of our starters, with Thompson and Maloney at AAA, it gives us more depth."
