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1. Bids up on Bay, provoking the BoSox brain trust to go Lackey-Cammy (cool that Epstein-James had identified Cammy as the cheaper fallback, too) -- even if the Mets end up with Bay, that's a win (in that if they went with Bay and a cheaper pitcher, it would not have hurt the Angels)
2. Not only grabs Lee out of thin air, but does it by becoming the third player that denies Halladay to LAAA!
3. This after already snatching their versatile, althetic, top-of-the-order guy.
He's playing the AL West like it's Cowboys-Giants-Eagles-Skins where you don't just gotta win, you gotta knock the other guys down while you're at it.
Query: Z is older than Bill Bavasi and Jim Bowden, who both got two shots before Z got his first.  Kevin Towers, a grizzled vet but also younger, says Z was his mentor way back when he was first starting out. 
Doc, your point about dealmaking being about more than just knowing the value of what you got, but also how to get the other guy to give you the deal, is spot on.  Z "gets it."  How come Chuck Armstrong was the first to give this guy a shot 20-some years later?  That's a real puzzle to me.