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OK.  More and more, since yesterday, I've begun to see this as a validation of Z's belief in Beavan.
He's 22 yrs old.  Has show he's a workhorse (160+ innings in both '09-'10, split between A+ and AAA).  He's on track right now for that many, or more, split between Tacoma and Seattle.
In a day when GM's treat young arms like they are fragile Faberge Eggs that is saying quite a bit.
He is a fastball-change up type of guy.  He's throwing the FB 76% of the time this year in Seattle and the change 11%. I like guys who know what they do well and then keep doing it. Beavan certainly does. He keeps it simple and it works.
He just doesn't walk anybody. In '09 he walked 20 guys in 168 innings, 11 per 8, and he's walked only 4 in 26 (supposedly nervous) MLB innings this year.  He throws a 91 mph heater that is probably deceptively fast, because of his big frame and stride, and he throws it on the black.
He lit A ball up as a 19 year old, then dropped back a bit at A+.  But since then he been moved up in a hurry and got better each 2nd go aound (to begin a season) at a particular level.
So Beavan is Fister.  Or thereabouts.  So Fister is a tradeable guy.
OK.  I'll buy in.
But....I'm not sure the return for Fister was rich enough.  Like any trade, there is an air of "if only...." about it.  But there are several "if onlies" that have to come into play for this one to be right.
Wells must mash if a LF (we already have a LF who projects to have a better bat) or must displace Guti in CF. (Has it been said?  This acquisition sure seems to indicate that the Halman/Peguero/Guti/Carp group is about to be whittled down).
The lefty could become a dominant middle guy, or a better-than-decent starter. Or the 3B guy or PTBNL can develop.  But 2 of the 4 must occur to make this a decent trade. 
But, if you consider Beavan as "part" of the trade, then the risk is greatly reduced. You only need one new guy to develop if Beavan continues to show his "Fisterish/Beavan-ish" Maddux-lite stuff..
I'm willing to look at it that way.
So I'm now in (as long as Carp stays a full-time player).
But I would have been more in if Span came this way.
moe