If Hicks were still with the organization our four outfielders would be Buxton, Hicks, Kepler, and Rosario. All four are good enough defensively to play center field. It would be a dream outfield situation. However, it also means that a very good player would always be sitting on the bench, not contributing. A good GM would trade from a position of strength to improve a position of weakness, and in retrospect trading Hicks was probably the right thing to do. The problem is that trading him for John Ryan Murphy was certainly the very wrong thing to do.