I'm not sabermetrically inclined, so the relative WAR doesn't interest me. What interested me at the time was the fact that my team went out and got an ace. Not just a maybe ace, but the real deal. Now, it didn't work out in the end (long-term contracts rarely do), but I was in the stands on the second-to-last day of 2008, when Johan pitched a 3-hit shutout on a bad knee on a day when his team absolutely had to win. That's ace stuff. Gomez took forever to develop. He'd probably have been traded for something less valuable eventually. I do this deal every day and twice on Sunday. Yes, even knowing what I know now. I probably would have stocked up on some extra bullpen arms, too, because then Johan could have pitched in the playoffs.