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A) Of course a Vargas will not be as effective anymore. Mostly the park change affects the LHP, that got a huge advantage in the past, which will now be a little smaller. But as of now we don't have one in the rotation, and the two that might be coming up are no soft-tosssing lefties. =)
B) Of course there was a lot of luck involved in the 1-run games. But also: 16-2 in extras might be not _only_ random noise, but hinting at a skill (although there was luck involved too). In this case, my theory still is "lights out bullpen coupled with average offense".
C) But wasn't the lineup lefty-heavy anyways? Seager, Ackley, Saunders, Morales, Ibanez (and Smoak). Plus, without a third C there was almost no way that Montero and Jaso would have started in the same game. It's not that Jaso wasn't useful, and I loved him as a person and a player, but that was more or less based on timely hits, charisma and overall approach. But come on, we got a nice piece back, one that we're going to use more. It's not like we traded him for Ryan Langerhans.
We definetely were not clear winners of this trade, but I don't think there were any losers either. All teams got what they wanted and gave up things they didn't need as much.