HOF Lannan

I love how people always forget about Olsen, Smolinski, and Dean, and also forget why the Marlins made the trade in the first place. They made it for money reasons. Smolinski is not great of a prospect. Willingham's worth this season was more considering he would have a shot to send you to the playoffs. Bonifacio is so bad that this made the trade a win for the Nationals.

With Cameron Maybin looking like he was ready, Cody Ross swinging a hot bat and playing great D and so much time, money and promise invested in Hermida, there wasn't room for Hammer unfortunately. His health issues prohibbitted the tem to signing to him to any kind of deal. However, the Nat's shouldn't necessarily be praised for "stealing him away" because they didn't play him regularly to start the season. Josh Willingham has been a top 5 hitter this year that would have helped the Marlins make the playoffs. The Nats were certainly stupid for not playing him more especially when they named Austin Kearns as the starter ahead of him. Hermida is a failed prospect. There was more than enough room to give the hammer 500-600 PA.

I'm a Nationals fan and I just don't see what the Marlins management were thinking when they gave away Josh Willingham for Emilio Bonifacio. That trade might cost the Marlins the playoff spot. Bonifacio destroyed your team and your franchise gave away a good hitter that they were only going to spend 2.5 million on (a huge bargain). If you replaced Bonifacio's attrocious performance with Josh Willingham, you might get 3-5 extra wins. Did you know that Josh Willingham leads all MLB outfielders in these categories: OBP (.418) Slug % (.593) OPS (1.011) OPS+ (163) wOBA (.430) He also leads every hitter in baseball in Road OPS (1.140)