Mark Shapiro - GM Trade History

At first glance I do not see many mistakes, Barfield dea could be one and jury still out on CC deal. I feel comfortable w Shapiro being the gm of the team I love.

Whenever I go over these G.M. trade histories,I find a handfull of wins, a handfull of losses, a handfull of draws and a handfull of too early to tells but, for the most part, the vast majority of trades turn out to be meaningless for either trade partner.

In Shapiro's case the big wins were:

Colon for Sizemore, Lee
Diaz for Hafner
Perez for Cabrera
Broussard for Choo

The big losers were:

Church for Stewart
Scott for Robertson
Phillips for Stevens
Kouzmanoff for Barfield

It's way too early to judge the Sabathia deal.

On balance, Shapiro has done pretty well. The only truly awful deal was the Brandon Phillips fiasco while the Cabrera, Sizemore, Hafner and Choo acquisitions have/are working out spectacularly.

and now you have the Nationals, who are a team with no future struggling to fill it's expensive new ballpark instead of featuring Grady Sizemore in CF everyday.

"The Nationals have much more of a future than the Expos ever did during their final seasons."

Exactly. The first thing that needs to happen for the Nats is some smart drafting (e.x. drafting Strasburg, and signing him, and signing whoever is drafted with that Crow comp pick).

Shapiro has done pretty well.

The sizemore, lee, AND Phillips trade was ridiculously good, too bad they traded Phillips for nothing.