Dave Cameron goes over what he calls the best available pitchers on the trading block. The pickings are extremely thin: after Edwin Jackson (who, by my reading, profiles a lot like Maholm, but a notch better), choices like Jeremy Guthrie and Jason Marquis are markedly less attractive than Paulie (older, less effective, not noticeably better contracts). Maybe Cameron's just put together a crap list (wouldn't be surprising), but my opinion of Maholm's likely return just went up.