News: D’Backs Acquire Haren, Deal Valverde
According to MLB.com, the Diamondbacks have acquired RHP Dan Haren from the A’s for for pitchers Brett Anderson, Greg Smith and Dana Eveland, OF Carlos Gonzalez and Aaron Cunningham and 1B Chris Carter.
In a separate deal, the Diamondbacks sent RHP Jose Valverde to the Astros in exchange for IF 
Chris Burke, RHP Chad Qualls and Juan Gutierrez.
Valvede led the National League in saves last season with 47, while also posting a 2.66 ERA.
…added to by Matthew Cerrone…
…so, as a reader pointed out in the comments section of this post, the D’Backs essentially traded their eighth, seventh, third and number one prospect for haren, as well as two other pitchers, which would sort of be like the Mets giving up Fernando Martinez, Carlos Gomez, Philip Humber and Jon Neise, at minimum…the problem is that the D’Backs system, as a whole, is ranked significantly better than the Mets, so i am not sure Omar Minaya could have even competed with arizona’s offer – nor, apparently, could 28 other teams around the league…
…if you recall, all indications out of oakland had been that for the Mets to get haren, given their current crop of minor-league talent, minaya needed to part with John Maine, which was never going to happen any way…
…for what it’s worth, i don’t think Erik Bedard is much of an option for the Mets at this point, either…in other words, it has always been, and will continue to be, Johan Santana or bust, which is equally frightening and exciting at the same time…
