Well, from this angle the trade looked desperate and short–sighted from the start: Posey was gone, you had the usual mediocrity hitting .250 or worse in several positions, and this kid Wheeler was exactly the sort of right-handed power pitcher you needed to balance Bumgarner at the top of the rotation long-term; add to that the fact Carlos Beltran clearly didn't want to come to this park or this city, and had a checkered history of … When you don't improve you fall behind.