Well, we traded all these prospects away to the Orioles for Tejada...why not go after Bedard instead? What about Santana? We could have packaged together a deal for him just as well as the Mets could have or even the Yankees. I agree about the FA market for pitchers but since we were trading all of our minor league talent away for a guy 5-6 years out of his prime, we could have done better. The key piece for the deal going to the Orioles, Luke Scott, is hitting better than Tejada anyways.
Scott is batting .361, 1 HR, 6 RBI, 6 2B, .439 OBP, .611 SLG
Tejada - .319, 2 hr, 9 rbi, 4 2b, 1 3b, .365 OBP, .574 SLG
and Scott is making a fraction of what Tejada is making.