Interesting stuff. Good point about Walt not getting credit for the Wainwright deal. You've got to figure that we got Adam, Marquis, King ( who turned into Miles and Bigbie ). The Cards won on that trade.

I'd also like to hear if you could sum up these stats. It sort of seems like CCH and VEB weren't even close on the first two. What's your conclusion?

Well, Edmonds's injury situation was much worse than anyone took into account. I mean, everyone figured that he'd miss some time, slow down some, but the extent of the offseason surgery and its impact on him was really not expected.

Wells, heck, who knows. I know we all expected that Dave Duncan would work wonders with him, and for a time he did. It really does seem to be more of a mental thing with him. He seemed to do well out of the pen, so that might be his future from now on.

We didn't do too terribly bad on Wainwright. Of course, the numbers are a bit skewed by the two or three that thought he'd be back in the bullpen somewhere along the way, but he probably was the one that was closest to expectations on the whole.

I didn't see this post until it was referenced at VEB, but I'm surprised that nobody has noticed that the Actual line given for Kip Wells is really that achieved by Anthony Reyes.

Whoops! Thanks for the catch, 2nd edition. I've edited it to put the actual numbers in.

Something I found while looking them up: Wells had a 2.31 ERA as a reliever. I'd guess that's where people are going to try him next year.

I get so tired of hearing how Walt messed the Haren for Mulder deal up. That trade could come up 100 times and I'd make that deal 7 out of 10 times. It was right for that particular point in time. There are a great deal of critics who are playing Monday Morning Quarterback with Mulder. Everyone's a genious in hindsight.