It’s a well documented fact that trades are better analyzed with a few years between. On an informal poll of Miami Marlins fans on Twitter, 60 percent voted that a trade needs three or more years to be long enough after-the-fact to make a fair determination on the all-important question: “Was that a good trade?”
Exactly one presidential term has passed since the Marlins traded Eovaldi, German, and Jones away for Phelps and Prado (and $6 million cash). This was a trade made under the auspices of former Marlins General Manager Dan Jennings.