he traded delmon young, who's been mediocre, for matt garza, who has been good and filled a big need (starting pitching). they signed carlos pena off the scrap heap last year, stole dioner navarro from the dodgers in 2006, shored up the bullpen with a few guys, and picked up some nice role players like gabe gross. it really shouldn't be an award based on what you did last offseason, but what you did to build the team on the field in 2008. Garza was the only one of those that happened in the last year. Hendry has done much more in the past year to improve his team. It's like Kendall and Trachsel got the awful out of his system, cause everything since then has been golden, with the possible exception of Kosuke(but that's nitpicking).