Shocked

So yesterday the Royals traded for Yuniesky Betancourt and managed to give up their #3 prospect according to BA last year (Dan Cortes) and lefty Derrick Saito. I'm needless to say not very happy with this move. I'll start by admitting that Dan Cortes seems to me to have always been a little overrated. His ERA's of 3.78 in 2008 and 3.92 in 2009 are backed up by FIP's of 4.4 and 4.28. This isn't a huge difference, but he has been somewhat lucky. His walks (besides his off the field problems) have been his hugest problem going from 3.29 per 9 to 4.24 to most recently 5.6. Another worry with him this year has been that his K/9 has dropped from 8.41 to 6.39. This didn't worry me though since the 8.41 was also at AA. The point is Dan Cortes was a flawed prospect. He was NOT worthless though. Some projected Cortes could possibly be a middle of the rotation starter one day. At worst with his power arm he could have been a decent middle reliever (Robinson Tejada?). The other prospect in the deal Saito had a 9.4 K/9 this year in A ball, but really is too far away to project. The two of them together should have been enough to be a large part of a deal to get a decent baseball player with upside (Yunel Escobar) or a solid veteran (Jack Wilson). Instead they got Yuniesky Betancourt. Betancourt is OPSing .609 this year, and has never done better than .725. He's 27 and has been gone steadily down from that .725 OPS 3 years ago. He has hit .289 before (twice) but his career high in walks is 17 and he has never hit 10 HR's in a season. This MAY have been okay if he were a good glove man at short. Betancourt through this point in the year has allowed 8.3 more runs on defense than a replacement level player. Hes produced 10.7 runs less than a replacement player. He is essentially a below average shortstop at BEST! So how do you give a good pitching prospect and a reliever with some upside for a below average shortstop who can't field and can't hit and has DECLINING skills? Were you dropped on your head as a kid DM? Were you drunk? I've tried to be patient with this team but moves like this really annoy me. I've always said no to the fire DM stuff, but now I don't know. I really don't know.