Nationals trade Matt Capps for a prospect

If last night was a glorious victory for Neal Huntington's bullpen building plan, today's news that Matt Capps was traded to the Twins for Wilson Ramos is pretty much the opposite of that. Capps, you will of course recall, was unceremoniously dumped by the Pirates with a non-tender back in March to allow them the freedom to go out and add Octavio Dotel, DJ Carrasco, and Brendan Donnelly. Carrasco and Dotel turned out nicely, Donnely didn't. Ramos is a pretty good 22-year old catching prospect who the Twins obviously don't need right now with Joe Mauer, which is a much better haul than "zilch." It's tempting to look at this as a "this or that" scenario, where the Pirates could've kept Capps and in turn be the ones receiving a player like Ramos in a trade. That was the more or less the mistake that Huntington made. I mean, yes, it's possible that had Huntington not cut Capps, Capps would be the Pirates' closer and it would be the Pir...