Smoltz Traded to Montreal for Mike Pelfrey

December trades saw some bolstering of playoff hopes and some serious revamping for the 2008-09 season.

The Montreal Sunsets added a veteran arm to their staff with the addition of John Smoltz. Smoltz was on the final year of a $4.84M B-2 contract, so Dayton management decided to try to get what they could and received hot prospect Mike Pelfrey, plus a 2nd and fifth round draft pick.

It remains to be seen whether Dayton, which is in the middle of the Silver League wild card hunt, will be hurt with the subtraction of Smoltz from its rotation. The addition of Smoltz to a Montreal rotation that already included Tom Glavine, Bret Myers, Johan Santana and Carlos Zambrano gives Montreal a leg up in the battle for Silver League supremacy.