That would have been a fair trade if Shelton would have kept up even half of his early season pace and Chavez had performd up to expectations.

After all, Oswalt and A Rod haven't been anything really special.

Obviously, you judged the future correctly and didn't make the trade, because as it turned out I would have had the advantage, mostly because Shelton and Chavez have been flops..

But had the season played out the way I said in the first paragraph here, it would have wound up being a good deal for you.

besides...trading is a negotiation.

What I can never understand about all of you guys is why you never make a counter-offer.

I'm telling you the players I'm interested inb when I make you an offer, so I'm really tipping my hand.

Every player has a price, and I have plenty of good players on my team.

You see who I want from you, why don't you make a counter offer?

You traded A Rod for Carpenter -- I'm sure you would have traded him as part of a deal for Santana.

I might've done Santana & Chavez for A Rod & Oswalt, altho I probably would've wanted a little bit more for the best pitcher in baseball.

I'd even trade Santana now in the right deal

Anyway, ask JG what he thinks....I don't believe I ever made him an unfair offer.

He's just been a little gun-shy about trading with me because of the way the Lebron trade didn't work out for him.