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Doc,
The genius part WASN'T in getting Guti, as that (IMO) was an obvious trade to make.  You get a tremendous defender (who had already shown that) at CF who has a a 100 (OPS) range bat for a closer....and closers are tremendously overvalued unless they are named Rivera and play for the Yankees.   GM who wouldn't make that move is suspect.
The A+ part was getting Vargas thrown in. Vargas had basically thrown 127 lousy MLB innings and one AAA season of 125 innings that was marginally impressive.  Z either saw something  very interesting and valuable here or he flat out got lucky.  Either way....it was the real smart part of the trade.
The other guys are a bit more gravy, but getting vargas in this deal was superb....whether it was dumb luck or not.