Strange That Lee Can't A Find Home

Ace left-hander Cliff Lee is going to his third team in the last six months. That fact is hard to believe when you stop to consider that he is perhaps baseballs most valuable commodity- a front of the rotation left hander with Cy Young credentials. Add in the fact that he is a relative bargain at around 9 million dollars due him this coming season and it gets even more confusing. I realize the Indians dumped Lee as a cost cutting measure and nothing else. They new they could not contend even with Lee at his best so they dumped his salary along with a few others. The story in Philadelphia is more complicated. Apparently they feared losing Lee in free agency at the end of the season, so they nipped that situation in the bud and traded him. I thought they could have gotten a little more for him than a few prospects. Let's face it, very few "prospects" ever make a significant contribution at the Major League level. Keeping Lee along with Halladay might have given the Phillies the 1-2 punch that they lacked in the last post season. After trotting out Lee at the front of the rotation they had to rely on inconsistent arms like Cole Hammels' and a past his prime Pedro Martinez. If Lee doesn't stay in Seattle after this season he will be on his way to his fourth team in less than 2 years. I know I'm not qualified to tell Major League G.M.'s how to spend their money or fill their rosters, but it does seem odd to me how much Lee has moved around considering his outstanding performance.