Boswell beat me to it, but I've been thinking for a while that this guy Nyjer Morgan the Nats got from Pittsburgh for Milledge is really underrated. (Not that I had ever heard of him prior to the trade). People dump on him because, horror of horrors, he is already 29 and only reached the majors a couple of years ago. But who cares, he probably has another 8-10 years of stellar CF play and a .360 OBP. Most teams don't have a leadoff hitter with a .360 OBP. (I was too lazy to find current OBP stats for leadoff hitters, but the average across all MLB is currently .333. And Morgan's 2009 OBP of .372 is tied for 22nd in the NL, and most of the people ahead of him are power hitters). To have a .360 OBP, Cristian Guzman would need a batting average of, oh, .359.
The same people rave about Milledge because of his alleged "upside", even though he's already proven that he's a punk who can't walk, hit for power or play center field. Other than that, he's great.
Also see this article asserting that Dunn and Morgan are equally valuable players:
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