I have little to add, but someone said earlier that KW doesn't like trading major league level players. I then find it interesting that he shipped Carlos Lee - a pretty solid outfielder with two years left before hitting FA - for Scott Podsednik, who had been up to then decidedly mediocre - heck, he had a sub 320 OBP in 2004, which is just plain bad - and isn't even a very good fielder. I would also mention trading away a decent CF in Aaron Rowand for Thome, but even an idiot could see he was making out like a bandit in that deal. Re: Walker's 2005 - he was doing very well when Carlos Lee went spikes up into him in April that season, and did very well after he came back. Maybe it was just an aberration, but somehow it seems to me that Walker was having a solid 2005 no matter how many AB's he got.