But yes, Orlando Cabrera is probably the best shortstop of all time. Trading him is so shocking, I almost made a blog about it. I still might. Here are some stats of mine for you to compare

AaWF (Awesomeness and Win Factors)

Orlando "Wizard of the OC" Cabrera
2002 60
2003 62
2004 105
2005 1245
2006 3212
2007 over 9000!!!

John "Im Really Terrible" Garland
2002 like 5
2003 4
2004 around maybe like 20
2005 2
2006 3(maybe)
2007 0 if that

As you can see, my statisics I complied through my own investigations coupled heavily with lots of talks with the really insightful people at lookout landing have produced this amazingly accurate list.

As you can see OC really took off when he became an Angel (go Angels lol) in the awesome and win shares. Jon Garland has, and always will suck.

This is what our rotation will probably look like next year

1 Lackey (Donkey man?)
2 Escobar (Awesome Myspace Cybormaster)
3 Weaver (Dreamcatcher's Weave!)
4 Garland (Sucks)
5 Santana (Those arm tatoos are SWEET)
6 Saunders (Hes the vanilla to my Angels Ice Cream world)
7 Moseley (more like Nosebleed!)
8 Bootcheck (If you dont check those boots, you might track in mud, like Garland)
9 Adenhart (Hes already stolen my heart)

Thats a solid rotation, although I am concerned. The Angels most likely need to trade someone to solidify the six and seven spots, cause they look shakey to me. I think a package of Garret Anderson (omg he doesnt run!) Some guy in A ball, and Bud Black for Johan Santana and F. Liriananonoo is a solid package. I mean, I like those Angels.. but we dont really need them, and I hear those other two pitchers have AaWFs of like 600 at least.

We are gonna really have to compete, I hear this guy named Chow Some Beak or something  is really gonna have a breakout- Cy Young like year along with some prince guy and someone with washboard abs. From what I hear the angels, even with that really neat new 9 man rot., are basicaly wild card bound. Im scared of this guy named Guillen. I went to a game at Safeco once and he told me he was going to eat my popcorn and steal my car because I  looked at him funny.

All and all, I cant wait for tomorrow, I hope for more pitching. And, can someone please trade that Willits guy? He has a wierd face at the plate that makes him look like hes taking a poop while batting. That monopoly belongs to Tim Salmon damnit.

Well, here's the Marlins' asking price: Four players, none of them with more than three years of big league service, all with a similar profile to the young future superstars the Twins are asking for Santana.

There is one major difference between Cabrera and Santana, however: Cabrera is two years away from free agency. So a team trading for him wouldn't also have to throw 150 million bucks at him -- yet -- because the Marlins have no plans to allow any negotiating windows.

But the price in talent is still so steep that the Angels would probably have no choice but to include Howie Kendrick and their top pitching prospect, Nick Adenhart. The Dodgers would almost certainly have to build their deal around Kershaw and James Loney.

The Giants would be likely to have to give up either Matt Cain or Tim Lincecum, but might not have enough position-player prospects to get this done. And the White Sox have the opposite problem. Center fielder Jerry Owens and third baseman Josh Fields would be a good fit for Florida's needs, but the Sox might be short on the arms the Marlins are looking for, especially after dealing away Jon Garland this week.

That Garland trade could still be a prelude to a deal for Cabrera, though. Just not with the White Sox.

The Angels appeared to need one more arm to assemble the kind of package Florida is after. So now that they've added Garland to their inventory, they just might have solved that pesky little dilemma.

"When I heard about that [Garland] deal, I said, 'Watch out for the Angels,'" says an official of one team that has been involved in the Cabrera talks. "If [new GM] Tony Reagins can bring in Garland and Cabrera, he'll have done a hell of a job in a real short time."