Don't know if it was Beinfest but,

 

Twins Get: Johan Santana

 

Marlins Get: Jared Camp (minors) and cash.

I believe that one is on Dombrowski, Santana was selected from the Houston organization in the 1999 Rule V Draft and moved to The Twins in a trade on that same day if not at the same momemt he was drafted.

 

Dombrowski was the Marlins Exec. VP and GM until 2001

I'm not sure how either the Jacobs/Delgado or by extension the Petit for Julio for Kim can determined to be (what was phrased as "infinitely worse" than what the thread starter considered "One of Beinfest's worst moves") bad trades per se.

 

For $14.50 million dollars this is what the Mets have gotten from Carlos Delgado in 2007:

 

BA .255

OBP .329

SLG .455

HR : 22 / 501 ABs / 129 Gms / 1 HR every 22.7 ABs / 8 errors

OPS .774

 

For $380,000 this is what the Marlins have gotten from Mike Jacobs in 2007:

 

BA .271

OBP .327

SLG .468

HR : 16 / 371 ABs / 101 Gms / 1 HR every 23.5 ABs / 5 errors

OPS .795

 

As for the Petit/Julio/Kim series of trades ask yourselves whether you would rather have had Kim or Petit this summer. The answer is obvious.

 

Jacobs is improving defensively and at the plate. Delgado will never be a better defensive player than he has shown 2005-2007.

 

(Both players spent time on the DL in 2007)

 

None of the above is meant to say Mike Jacobs is yet playing at a level that equals Carlos Delgado's career numbers because he isn't, and may never. But looking at 2007 it appears the Marlins certainly got the better of that trade without even including the Petit/Kim factor.

 

And next year Mike Jacobs will cost around $450,000 - Carlos Delgado $16 million. One player is 26, the other 35 years old. For Delgado it is the third consecutive year his OBP/SLG/OPS numbers have declined.

 

For the 2007 trading away Delgado (with 1/2 season's salary thrown in) has worked to the Marlins advantage on the field as well as the pocketbook.

 

How can anyone argue with this. Thanks 2003 for this informative post :thumbup

If things go the way they do, beinfest will do a littlefield and turn the Fish into a Pirates clone, bloated vetreans and no Farm....

 

Oh God no.... :banghead :banghead :banghead