Trade Offer Advice - Utley/Blalock/Santana for Lee/Soriano/Beckett

Like I said, I'm more than willing to answer e-mails asking for fantasy advice.

Pogue from fanhome.com writes (after a lengthy discussion of his league's wonderfully complex rules):

"12 team H2H keeper ml points league w/6 keepers
I give: Derrek Lee
(keeper), Soriano (keeper), and Beckett
To get: Blalock, Utley, and Johan
Santana (all keepers)"

His roster looks like:

"1B:
Derrek Lee*
2B: Alfonso Soriano*, Rickie Weeks*
3B: Aubrey Huff*, Andy
Marte*, Eric Hinske*
SS: Pedro Feliz, Felipe Lopez*, Bobby Crosby*
C:
Jason Phillips*
OF: Manny Ramirez, Vernon Wells* Ken Griffey, Jr., Jason
Bay, Brad Hawpe*
SP: Tim Hudson* Josh Beckett, Javier Vasquez, Freddy
Garcia, Brett Myers*, John Lackey*, Jamie Moyer*
RP: Brad Lidge* Jose Mesa,
Eddie Guardado*
IR: Javy Lopez
*Keeper"

With that trade, he'd end up with 6 very solid keepers for years to come (Blalock, Utley, Santana, Marte, Hudson and Lidge - or Huff instead of Hudson if he can get his act together). Without the trade, he's still pretty solid. Now, I'm a huge fan of Utley's potential. But the final factor here is roster space - he'd end up with two or three third basemen with keeper potential (Blalock, Huff and Marte), and Utley at 1B (where's not at full potential - 2B). But, those are small sacrifices to make to get Santana as a keeper. Do the trade.

Keep sending in those questions! Just make sure to include your league size and type, as well as your roster.