Agreed...Your trading a 4th outfielder, a utility infielder, and a pitcher who can't throw a strike let alone pitch The problem is, think of the package we could have gotten for those 3 last offseason. We probably gotten Brian Roberts or anyone else along those lines. Now, we'll get a whole lot of nothing. While our actual loss may be a 4th outfielder, utility man, and a guy who might be finished, our opportunity cost is much larger. A complete butchering of what were once very valuable (and sought after) assets. butchering? more like bad luck. hindsight is 20/20. at the time, trading hill for roberts was a really bad move. there was no reason for hendry to think hill would completely meltdown. I'll buy you're Hill argument because I was against that too, but I'm not paid to make those decisions like Hendry. Heck, a lot of people wouldn't have traded Hill for Peavy last offseason had that scenario been presented. Hill was probably our best pitcher in 2007 (maybe Lilly). However, that would have been the very definition of selling high, something that Hendry hasn't done much of (except DeRosa, but he didn't really get anything for DeRosa). However, what about the other 2, especially Pie? He has pretty much no value right now. i don't think cedeno and pie really had that much value last offseason either. as for hill, it doesn't matter if he would have been "selling high". it would have been a bad trade at the time if he used him to get roberts. selling high doesn't real mean anything if you overpay. we "sold high" on derosa but we got a crappy deal, so who cares? you can't fault hendry for not trading hill. at the time it would have been really dumb and we all would have been flipping out (and rightfully so). the fact that he completely fell apart doesn't mean the front office screwed up. it means we got unlucky. not much you can do about that think about how many times in the history of baseball somebody been able to say "man, we realllllly should have traded that guy last offseason when he had good value". it's part of the game. think about it from the other side. what if we had traded soto as a throw in for some mediocre player before the 2007 season? that would have been even worse than not getting anything for hill. it goes both ways