It costs a
bunch, but we get our guy.
In the end, it's only McCormick I'm having seller's remorse over, but there was simply no permutation of this deal that didn't involve him. Good lefty prospects are valuable commodities, and let's hope we don't pay exponentially for having dealt him away.
Obviously, on the credit side of the ledger we get an elite bat and the parting with Thomas frees up LF for him and will allow us to get more out of guys like Lemon in the short-term and eventually Alou and even Geiger in the long.