Carlos Lee was pretty good.
But as Hawk Harrelson laid out in the eighth inning of the White Sox win over the Texas Rangers on May 17, 2005, the trade that sent Lee to the Milwaukee Brewers in December 2004 was more like a 4-for-1 than the 2-for-1 swap it went down as in the transaction log.
The White Sox got Scott Podsednik and Luis Vizcaino from the Brew Crew in exchange for El Caballo. But they saved a good deal of money, too. Lee made $8 million in 2005. Podsednik and Vizcaino made $2 million combined.