 At the time this was viewed as a relatively even trade, but since then the Pirates are widely seen as having lost the trade, including it being called a "fleecing".By one measure having given up 5 times as much value as the Rays, and the players the Pirates gave up have combined for 6.4 WAR compared to Archer's 0.7 WAR.David Schoenfield, a columnist for ESPN, wrote "Those two epic trade failures have crushed the Pirates' immediate future."