Career MLB: Santana - 113 wRC+ Gamel - 100 wRC+ And Santana is a year younger. Yes. Santana is a better hitter than Gamel. Mostly on account of his massive edge in power. His power is the loudest tool involved in the deal. At the same time, his inability to make contact is also the biggest red flag involved in the deal. That is a mitigating factor. When you consider that Gamel has a much better hit/contact tool & is a better baserunner/fielder, that makes up for a fair amount of that 13 point wRC+ edge. Add in that being lefty, costing less & having an option makes him a better fit for the roster, plus the fact he's outperformed Domingo as recently as last year, and then throw in a pitching prospect the FO clearly likes & I guess it's just hard for me to quantify that as basically nothing. I will agree with you that my use of the phrase "basically nothing" was misguided. I'll walk that back. I still don't like the deal because I like having Santana in the hole in case the Brewers are bitten by the injury bug in the outfield and I think over a longer period of time he will prove more valuable than Gamel. For the record, I do like Stearns a lot.