Looking at the "Big Trades"

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The problem here is that none of us know what other options were on the table for a lot of these deals.

That view leaves us with the reductio ad absurdum that any deal is above questioning. We don't know what other options Dave Stewart had on the table for a package of Inciarte, Swanson and Blair. So we shouldn't question his wisdom in making the trade he made.