Oh I see. So you can judge Pavano with only a few starts, but you can't judge WMP who only played a few games? Uh, something doesn't add up.
Sorry, there isn't that big a difference between the AL and NL, maybe he wouldn't be piching AS well, but he'd still be a solid number 3 guy. Face it, if you had him, the AL East would not be a race. When you lose something big, and get basically nothing in return, it's called a bust. And it's too bad this writer failed to see this.