Obviously you are in a TRAD league or you wouldn't be asking this and Stein wouldn't be a 5.9 pitcher.

It would seem to me this trade isn't likely to make a major impact and isn't worth the COMMISH's involvement...but...

trades like this one do have the potential to unbalance the league long term.

Next year Wallace is "uncarded" and Stein is worthless. [but then will the #2 and #3 rookies be any better?]

Personally, these are the types of trades I'd like to see the COMMISH pay some attention to as someone mortgages their future to GO FOR IT this year (although is a #2 and #3 rookie THAT valuable in a TRAD league...maybe?). My experience has been though that the COMMISH allows unbalanced future trades because as he said in one explanation to me something to the effect that "Everyone thinks they have a chance this year at the start of the season..." This when a last place finisher traded to a first place finisher some very valuable young players for some 35-38 year olds. [Pierre, Eckstein, Furcal, & Farsnworth for Burks, Bordick, Romero & Alicea]

I personally am glad that the COMMISH tries to evaluate the trades for fairness and just wish he'd pay more attention to the trades where old guys (or in TRAD leagues guys with bad years coming up) are traded for rookie picks or for young guys. It seems to me that those are the ones most likely to result in lopsided teams down the road. Not to say that you shouldn't trade young for old, just that those should be scrutinized to prevent one team from being used as a "farm team" for another or some guy doing a "George Allen with the Redskins" and going for broke one year and then abandoning the team after he's ruined their future. [Not that George Allen abandoned the team, I actually respected the guy.]

DaveF