I don't what it is about sports fans, or at least Reds' fans, where someone always has to win in a trade. Too many people that follow the game think that their team can trade away all the players they don't want and get another's team coveted treasures. However, in an ideal world both parties in involved in the deal improve. I guess after years of a snake like Jim Bowden at the helm it's hard think of anything that is fair and honest.

Like Wayne Krivsky or not, you have like the fact that he was shrewd enough to make the deal to get Josh Hamilton as Rule 5 draft pick and then ballsy enough to then go and turn them in to Edinson Volquez, the top pitching prospect of the Rangers.

After five weeks of the season, the trade is working out for both sides better than even the team's themselves ever imagined. Josh Hamilton leads the majors with 36 RBI's and Edinson Volquez (5-1) leads the National League with a 1.06 ERA and leads the majors with 52 K's.

Volquez didn’t allow more than one earned run in any of his first seven starts.  No Reds pitcher had accomplished that feat since earned runs became an official statistic in 1912.

PLAYER COMPARISON
Hamilton - .292 AVG, .346 OBP, .533 SLG, 7 HR, 36 RBI, 17 R, 0 SB, 20 K
Volquez - 42 1/3 IN, 7 GS, 4 QS, 5-1, 1.06 ERA, 52 K, 24 BB, 28 HA

Texas is tickled with Hamilton and the Reds are looking like they knew what they were doing, it's just too bad Krivsky didn't get to stick around to see it.