But this was taking too long. I'm not gonna figure out dollar value of the money paid to the various traded players to work out the extra millions saved there for use in other areas, but that's an additional mark for the ledger. For reference (B-R figures):
1) Pedro Martinez (20.1 WAR in MTL, plus 2.6 WAR for Pavano and 8.9 WAR for Tony Armas Jr. in the Bo Sox trade later) for 3 seasons of Delino DeShields (3.2 total WAR)
2) Salomon Torres (-0.8 WAR in SEA) for 7 seasons of Shawn Estes (8.8 WAR) and 3 seasons of Wilson Delgado (-0.3 WAR)
3) Jason Schmidt (10.8 WAR in PIT) for Denny Neagle (6.8 WAR in ATL). PIT later got robbed trading Schidt to SF because, Pittsburgh.
4) Carl Pavano - traded for Pedro with other stuff - the Red Sox win!!
5) Brad Penny (8.7 WAR, plus the other stuff they got) for Matt Mantei (2.7 WAR out of the bullpen with AZ)
6) Scott Kazmir (16.5 WAR) for Victor Zambrano (1.4 WAR in NYM)
7) Adam Wainwright (26.4 WAR in STL) for one year of JD Drew (career best one year of 8.3 WAR)
8) Andrew Miller (plus a half dozen pieces) brought back Miguel Cabrera -the Tigers win!!
9) Matt Garza (8.5 WAR in TB + Jason Bartlett's 10.4 WAR) for Delmon Young (0.9 WAR in MIN plus nominal parts). Garza also brought Hak-Ju Lee and Chris Archer back to the Rays in a 2nd trade.
Michael Pineda and Jacob Turner haven't had the chance to do anything. Pineda vs. Montero is still a push of uselessness, and Turner pulled 1.4 WAR in half a season vs. Anibal's 6.3 WAR for leading the league in ERA. Like I said, if we do the Walker trade, somebody make sure we get back a 4-to-6-WAR-per-year pitcher for half a decade, please. Or the Andrew Miller trade where we get back a Miguel Cabrera. So Stanton, I guess.
Just saying. Go big and get back a monster, or stay home.
~G
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