I'm all for maximizing talent for the 4-5 year window we'll have here, but why on earth would a small market team trade away inexpensive talent? We can aquire 1 or 2 free agents max, the rest of the players will have to come from in house. You want trade away 12 years of 2 players who could have valuable contributions for 2 months of a good but declining pitcher and 2 months a hitter who's way the wrong side of 30? Why don't we trade Inman, Salome, Mench, and Escobar for Roger Clemens and Bobby Abreu if that's criteria? If you're giving up cheap young talent for a stud, you want to be able to control that pitcher for awhile, not for 2 months. World Series? I'd love it, but it's far from garunteed even with Buehrle. Whomever said these are video game trades is correct, would DM's job be safe when we're 60-102 in 3-4 years after making a deal like this? Why would he mortgage the future against the present, the present which contains a very young team that predictably is up and down, like most young teams are. I'm sorry I just don't want a part of any rent a player deals that cost top talent. It's not in the best long term interest of the franchise, and a good case can be made that it's not in the best short term interest of the franchise either.