Trades were good for me?

Question

I traded Johan Santana and Trevor Hoffman and I got Scott Kazmir and Tim Hudson

I also trade Troy Tulowitzki for Carlos Quinton

My Team as of this morning

Ryan Doumit

Pit - C)

1B James Loney

2B Orlando Hudson

(Ari - 2B

3B Evan Longoria

(TB - 3B)

SS Miguel Tejada

(Hou - SS)

OF Pat Burrell

(Phi - OF)

OF Nate McLouth

(Pit - OF)

OF Carlos Quinton

Util Jay Bruce

(Cin - OF)

1B Joey Votto

(Cin - 1B,OF)

BN Chris Young

(Ari - OF)

BN Chone Figgins

(LAA - 2B,3B,OF)

BN Casey Blake

(Cle - 1B,3B,OF)

Staff

Scott Kazmir

Jered Weaver

Zack Grenkie

Tim Hudson

Trevor Hoffman

Fracisco Cordero

Brian Fuentas

Answer 1

nice trades, i like the look of your team

Answer 2

#1:  Looking at your team, you made a mistake typing.  You said you traded hoffman.

#2:  What league are you in?  I want to get into it.  If there are idiots in your league that will trade Quentin for Tulo, I would wreck that league.

#3:  You need to make some more trades because you are extremely limited in power, speed, and relief pitching.

For example:  after a few trades, my team looks like this:

C Rod Barajas

1b Adrian Gonzalez

1b Jason Giambi

2b Dan Uggla

3b Alex Rodriguez

ss Hanley Ramirez

of Jacoby Ellsbury

of Jose Guillen

of David DeJesus

of Ryan Ludwick

sp John Lackey

sp Ben Sheets

sp Erik Bedard

sp James Shields

sp Jorge Campillo

sp Justin Masterson

rp Francisco Rodriguez

rp Joe Nathan

rp Carlos Marmol

rp Dan Wheeler

rp Joey Devine (DL)

As a reference, these are the trades I made:

1. I got James Shields and Jonathan Broxton

I gave Mike Jacobs and Mark Reynolds

2. I got Chipper Jones and Carlos Marmol

I gave David Wright, Felix Hernandez, and Jonathan Broxton

3. I got Adrian Gonzalez and Alex Rodriguez

I gave Kosuke Fukudome, Cole Hamels, Todd Helton, Evan Longoria

4. I got Michael Young and Joe Nathan

I gave Vladimir Guerrero, Takashi Saito, and Bobby Crosby

5. I got Hanley Ramirez and Ben Sheets

I gave Michael Young, Chipper Jones, and Clayton Kershaw

I gave up some quality guys to improve at certain positions and even traded for some guys solely to re-trade them.  In doing so, I turned david wright into Arod, Bobby Crosby into HanRam, Saito into Nathan, Todd Helton into Adrian Gonzalez, and Clayton Kershaw into Ben Sheets.  I would say that this is the way to do it.