Ned Colletti certainly has a checkered past in the moves he's made with the Dodgers.

For most of the terrific short term contracts he's put together (Orlando Hudson, Randy Wolf) there is a Jason Schmidt and an Andruw Jones.

He's also the guy who traded away Edwin Jackson, Cody Ross and Willy Aybar, getting pretty much nothing in return. But he's also the guy who acquired Andre Ethier, who is a budding superstar. He also brought in Manny Ramirez and brokered solid deals like Casey Blake and Greg Maddux.

This year, Dodger fans were ready to rip him apart when this year's non-waiver trade deadline came and went on July 31 without him making a move for the big starter or a big bat.

Dodger fans had dreams of Cliff Lee or Roy Halladay in the rotation, then rumors of Adrian Gonzalez started to float around and Dodger fans were excited.

Alas, none of it came to fruition and the only move he made was to trade two minor leaguers (one of them a stud in Josh Bell) for relief pitcher George Sherrill.

And Sherrill has turned out to be a stud, only allowing one run in over 20 innings while donning the Blue. This move was considered a pretty good move at the time, but is turning out to be a great move.

Then Colletti didn't sit on his hands in August, and was aggressive during the waiver trade deadline.

He signed Vicente Padilla and brought in Ronnie Belliard, Jon Garland and Jim Thome in August and all of those moves have paid big dividends.

Belliard, who hit a solid single as I was typing this, is currently hitting .288 with a couple of home runs since the trade.