After Murakami put up good pitching statistics as a reliever, Giants executives sought to exercise a clause in their contract with the Hawks that, they claimed, allowed them to buy up an exchange prospect's contract.
Brian Burke, the Toronto general manager, characterized the market as "their team gets better, and we wait" — that is, teams are looking for players with immediate impact in exchange for prospects or draft choices.
On December 17 , 2011 the Padres traded Latos to the Reds in exchange for prospects Yonder Alonso, Yasmani Grandal, and Brad Boxberger, along with veteran starting pitcher Edinson Volquez.
Ruben Amaro, the general manager of the Phillies, struck gold again by landing Astros outfielder Hunter Pence on Friday night in exchange for three prospects, none of them named Domonic Brown.
Halladay arrived in December from the Blue Jays in exchange for three prospects.
In a recent Columbia Law School Magazine, Professor Jamal Greene and legal affairs reporter Joseph Goldstein had the following exchange about her prospects.
The Kansas City Royals strengthened their postseason aspirations Sunday by acquiring starting pitcher Johnny Cueto from the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for three prospects.
The departures of Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore, coupled with the return of former U.S. national team stars Claudio Reyna and Brian McBride, highlighted the exchange of top prospects to Europe for experienced veterans to MLS.
Tsipras also faces an uphill struggle to win over fellow members of his Syriza party to the reforms he was forced to pledge in exchange for the prospect of new money.
Thus did the unchanging reports of the accidental deaths of celebrities like the Princess of Wales and John F. Kennedy Jr. become epics that titillated for days, with a cast of hundreds, many of them willing to perform on television free in exchange for the prospect, however feeble, of instant stardom.
