JC Bradbury made a great point about the Marlins trading Dontrelle Willis to the Tigers: Willis wouldn’t have been a Marlin in the first place if not for another Florida “salary dump” deal in 2002. Prior to that season, the Cubs decided they needed some top notch pitching, trading for Antonio Alfonseca and Matt Clement. The Marlins received Willis and Julian Tavarez in return. Not bad.
Nobody likes when big name players get traded away and nobody likes counting on unknown players producing down the road. But it usually works.
(In researching this post, I discovered that Florida once plucked Johan Santana from Houston in the Rule 5 draft, then immediately flipped him to Minnesota in a pre-arranged swap. Oops.)
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Sky is a baseball fan and racket sport afficianado living in upstate NY. His favorite color is orange and is just about ready to give up on his life-long dream to become the next Magnus ver Magnuson (World's Strongest Man). His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees and Red Sox, proving that there's hope in the Middle East.