トレードのWinners/Losers

トレード・デッドラインから一夜あけた。昨夜のジャイアンツは、初回に8点を入れたのに、その後まったく点を取れず、8-7まで追い上げられた。ハージスも打ち込まれ、クリステンセンが最後を押さえた。
トレードでブルペンを補強できなかったジャイアンツだが、はらはらどきどきしながら、8月、9月の56試合を、真剣に応援していこうと思う。というわけで、今夜はSBCパークのカージナルス戦にいく。朝からうきうきとしてくる。
ジャイアンツは今57勝49敗。首位ドジャーズとは4.5ゲーム差。ワイルドカード首位のパドレスに2ゲーム差。56試合あるのだから何だって起こりえるのだが、やっぱりちょっと弱いな。現有戦力で力を合わせてやっていくしかない。
さて、トレード分析が出始めている。「Marlins make out like bandits」
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=1850117
では、Big Winnersが、フロリダ、カブス、ボストン、メッツ。Big Losersが、ドジャーズ、パイレーツ、ヤンキーズ、ツインズ。
特に、L.A.のトレードには疑問の声が大きい。

The most-asked question in baseball, after the transaction wire had finally settled down Saturday night, was: "What did the Dodgers do?"
It's hard to question the intentions of GM Paul DePodesta. He felt he had a team capable of getting to the playoffs as constituted -- but wasn't sure it was capable of beating anybody in the playoffs without another impact arm and impact bat.
But when his prospective trades for Randy Johnson and Charles Johnson crumbled like the Roman Empire, all of a sudden the master plan didn't look quite as masterful.
Trading Paul Lo Duca could turn into a painful memory for the Dodgers.
"To me," said one NL executive, "the only way the Dodgers could do that deal with Florida is if they were assured of two things: 1) They were going to get Charles Johnson to come there. And 2) they were going to get Randy Johnson to come there. Otherwise, there's no reason to do that deal."
But the Dodgers did it -- and then made three more deals Saturday. In the end, they did add an impact bat, in Steve Finley. And Brad Penny was certainly an October dominator in the final week of last October. But he's no Big Unit.
So was the cost really worth it? There's no doubt the Dodgers' Most Valuable Part all year has been their bullpen. And they subtracted the best setup man in baseball (Mota) and their best situational left-hander (Tom Martin) from it, without replacing them in other deals.
But maybe the biggest loss was Lo Duca -- an All-Star, a leader and a face of the franchise.
"I believe in intangibles," said one NL front-office man. "And I believe Lo Duca is that kind of player. That team fed off his energy. I just wonder if they outsmarted themselves by trading him."

L.A.がこれでこけてくれると(昨日はMotaが出て押さえるはずの8回に、パドレスに逆転されて、ガニエの出番もなく負けた)、ジャイアンツにとっては「棚から牡丹餅」なのであるが。