while a lot of people bring up losing Brantley in the CC trade, he wasn't even the centerpiece of that trade and wasn't a highly valued prospect at the time. That is just the cost of doing business. Sometimes you win sometimes you lose. As it stands right now we got a potential future Hall of famer and an already one times MVP for four guys who look like negative value WAR players. trading, just like everything in baseball that has to do with player acquisition, is an inexact science. You win, you lose, sometimes both parties are happy. Through the lens of time the CC trade looks all right to me. We went to the playoffs, that season was fun. a lot of people think that revitalized the franchise. I don't know about that. There's no way to put a value on that. I don't know if that's true or not. But the memories are fun to look back on.