Daniel Norris, Jairo Labourt and More to Tigers: Trade Details, Scouting Report

The trade deadline kept humming along Thursday, as the Toronto Blue Jays acquired star pitcher David Price in exchange for Daniel Norris, Jairo Labourt and Matt Boyd, per Fox Sports: MLB on Twitter. 

All three prospects are left-handed pitchers. 

Without question, landing Price—along with trading for shortstop and slugger Troy Tulowitzki earlier in the week—makes the Blue Jays one of the favorites in the American League. But what did the Tigers get back for the All-Star pitcher?

Norris is the crown jewel here. The 22-year-old is 3-10 this season at Triple-A Buffalo with a 4.27 ERA, 1.51 WHIP and 78 strikeouts in 90.2 innings pitched. He's 1-1 in six MLB starts with a 4.20 ERA and 1.50 WHIP. He hits the mid-90s on his fastball and, per Joel Sherman of the New York Post, compares favorably to a pair of excellent MLB pitchers:

He also marches to the beat of his own drummer, as Eli Saslow chronicled for ESPN the Magazine. Per that story, Norris lived in a 1978 Volkswagen camper during spring training that he drove down to Florida over a several-week trip, literally living in a Wal-Mart parking lot during that time, all by choice.

Norris is the big name, but Boyd could be a sneaky addition in this trade, per Peter Gammons of GammonsDaily.com:

Meanwhile, Ben Badler of Baseball America breaks down Boyd's development over the past year:

Labourt rounds out the trio. He's a big lefty with nasty stuff and high velocity who misses a ton of bats, with 276 strikeouts in 291 innings. Jon Morosi of Fox Sports has more on the exciting prospect:

Labourt more than likely will round into a late-innings reliever in the MLB.

All in all, it was a good haul for the Tigers, who turned a player who would have signed elsewhere this winter into three prospects who really improve their farm system's pitching, especially from the left-handed perspective. The Tigers did well in this trade and should reap the benefits a few years down the line.