have gotten that deal. Everyone seems to want more from us.

We would have had to give up, Kevin Jepsen, Brandon Wood, Mike Napoli, and Trevor Reckling

Substituting the names of Angels’ prospects doesn’t make the proposed deal an equivalent.

Two of those four players (Carrasco and Marson) made the list of Top 50 Prospects for 2009 on MLB.com, alongside such bonafide young players as Elvis Andrus, Tommy Hanson, Matt Weiters, Matt LaPorta and David Price (and, sadly, Nick Adenhart).

From the description of Carrasco:

His 3.69 ERA was fifth in the system. Take away one bad start in Triple-A — 5 IP, 9 H, 6 ER — and the young right-hander had a 0.28 ERA (he allowed eight unearned runs) and a .224 batting average against in five starts during his Triple-A debut.

Jason Donald played on the US Olympic Team with Adenhart, Reynolds, Wood and Jepsen, and was buried behind Utley and Rollins; he’d be ready to start on most teams without such incumbents.

I appreciate that Indians fans are incensed, since they have no understanding of who is coming their way. It will be interesting to see how much venom they have a year from now when some of these young players are growing into exciting players in Cleveland. Three years later, this will be remembered like the trade of Bartolo Colon which brought them Grady Sizemore and—yes—Cliff Lee.

Picking the names of 4 Angel players in the minors at random indicates you have no idea who these young men are, either.