Oh, I agree that they were not all at top value. However, my preference would have been to convert a cub controlled cheap TOR starter, a decent dice roll at one of the top 5 pitchers in the AL (which Bedard is when healthy), and a servicible cheap #5 SP/BP assett into some concentrated WAR at a position of need (eg exactly what we obtained with the Pineda trade). Again, I understand that it is early, but it seems right now that we still have OF weakness, 3B is a major questionmark, Furbush and Ruffin might not even make the team, etc. I also agree that if those guys we received hit high on their projections, then the trade will work out nicely. It just doesn't look (to me) like that will happen... right now. All those guys have major, glaring weaknesses (strikeouts, contact issues, diabetes, arm mechanics, etc). It just would have been nice to get something more like a future bedrock than a bunch of lotto tickets. Maybe that was all that was available at the time... but I still say there was no reason to trade Fister at the deadline rather than in the offseason. Maybe they thought he would collapse at any minute and this was their best chance to sell high? If so, they seem to have been quite wrong in their assessment there.