Just like the fact that he got 3 bodies for Ramon

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I think the point that you made that,

“it goes to show that it takes a couple years to accurately and adequately identify what was great and what was poor of any given trade or signing or lack thereof”

is correct, but also contradicts your earlier point that,

“Scott Moore’s been useless, and Renshaw is a low level minor leaguer still”

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Still no pitching reinforcements this offseason. That is BAD.

I’m glad, actually, because for a while everyone around here would comment about how great Andy McPhail was doing because we got Rocky Cherry and Scott Moore and Jake Renshaw for Steve Trachsel. And Cherry was useless and is gone, Scott Moore’s been useless, and Renshaw is a low level minor leaguer still. It wasn’t exactly the greatest trade in the world, which it sort of got made out to be. I’m glad we can maybe now close the book on it, and maybe even start talking a little more objectively about how good or bad McPhail’s been for us. And for the record, he’s been pretty good…but we certainly don’t have much tangible evidence of that.

In fact, what we’ve got is a lot of potential in Adam Jones, a rejuvenated minor league pitching system featuring Chris Tillman, Luke Scott, and a bunch of money in pocket. Maybe I’m making sort of a too grandiose point vis a vis Rocky Cherry, but I think it goes to show that it takes a couple years to accurately and adequately identify what was great and what was poor of any given trade or signing or lack thereof. Case in point: not signing Pavano turned out to be one of the best things we ever didn’t do.