[rwperu34]

You know what this reminds me of? It reminds me of when Alfonso Soriano was traded for Brad Wilkerson. SE was like "Huge win for the Rangers," and I said, "Have you lost your mind? Soriano has tools baby!" Then SE said, "Yeah, but even if Soriano is a little better than Wilkerson, the Rangers got Sledge too," and I said, "huh?"

I've created two slogans.

1. If the deal seems fair, take the guy with better tools. Neither the Soriano or Delmon Young trades seem fair to me, but you guys seem to think so, so it applies.

2. Don't trade a guy coming off of a bad year or for a guy coming off of a good year. The Rays are guilty of both to some degree here.

Obviously these can't be hard and fast rules, but a huge % of the time, this will determing who gets the better end of a deal.