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Darvish, of course!
No brainer. 
On the Reyes issue, Sandy's right! Franklin is on the way, and we have two guys who can play the position right now.  SS is not a weakness and if you get Reyes you're paying for his best year ever, which you won't see again......and you're getting a thoroughbred with tender legs......and you  pay for a full season but get 30 games less than that from him. Over the course of 4 seasons you get almost one less "Reyes season" (130 games) than you pay for.  Paying fullbore for a hotrod is fine, but if it is in the shop every 4th day that you want to cruise up the coast with the top down then you may have overpaid.
glmuskie is right and wrong.  We're fine, right now, in the 1B/DH area.  He got that right.  But Carp is hardly a scrub.  I'll trust he said that tongue in cheek.
I continue to be amazed at Dave Cameron's  OCD with a Pineda + for Votto swap. Man, Pineda had a 1.1 WHIP last year, as a rookie!  Felix didn't hit that until his 4th year.  Pineda had a 9.1 K's/9, something Felix has never touched and he had a 3.15 K/BB ration.  Felix came very close twice, but only matched that the last couple of year.  Pineda may not be Felix, but he's a 22 yr old with a gun with no health issues.  He's WAY cheap for the next 5 seasons, too.  Why would you ship that off? 5 years from now, let's look at your retrun on investment, total WAR/$ spent.  Wanna bet on who has the better return?
Votto is quite nice, thank you.  Better than that, even, but no thank you.  Not for that price.