I'm going to play devil's advocate here and say that's not necessarily true. Who would have thought we'd trade Rasmussen? Feyereisen? Thornburg? Granted Williams is better than these guys, but that also likely means we'd get more. I guess my main point is that Stearns always keeps his options open and will deal if he believes that he can exploit a market inefficiency. Grisham looked like a guy who wasn't going anywhere for awhile too, until he did. The difference is you just listed a bunch of guys. Williams might be the second-best relief pitcher in the league behind Hader. It's going to take a haul to get him from us and teams just don't seem to be doing that right now. The Williams-Hader combo with the rotation we have is a playoff team that can win a WS. I think Stearns knows this and values this. It will take being blown away, even with this mistake, to move on from Williams.