It’s been the day we’ve all been waiting for. Waiting to see what Doug Melvin would do with Carlos Lee. Today it finally came when Lee along with super AAA prospect Nelson Cruz were traded to Texas for slugger Kevin Mench, Laynce Nix, and Francisco Cordero. But did they get fair value? Although that’s yet to determine, I my first thoughts to the trade were: Why? The Brewers have been waiting on these young outfielders to come up, and then they deal their best one? Doesn’t make a ton of sense. That was the part that swung the deal in the Rangers favor; Nelson Cruz. We all knew Carlos would get traded or resigned, and in the end the Brewers just didn’t offer him enough money. Kevin Mench is a guy who I really like with Lee type numbers. Although he isn’t quite as offensively dominant as Lee is, he’s a guy that flashes some leather. Francisco Cordero has an interesting story along the same lines as Derrick Turnbow. He started out very successful, then earlier this year lost his closer role to Akinori Otsuka. But since May 1, Cordero has showed signs of snapping out of it, posting a mear 1.98 ERA. Laynce Nix is a guy I don’t know a ton about, and reports are that he has been sent to AAA Nashville. After the dust seemingly cleared, it kicked up once again, in another deal that will bring 3rd baseman David Bell to Milwaukee in exchange for a minor-league pitcher. After all was said and done, I think this Brewer team will have a lot of gelling to do to come together as a team, but I think it was clear that Carlos Lee and the Brewers weren’t seeing eye to eye on things and a trade was inevitable.