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Originally Posted by Flickered Flame
This is business as usual in Oakland.
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Yeah, and as far as being an A's fan, you've learned not to get attached to players as much as other teams. Beane has demonstrated over and over that his plans generally work out in building a team that's in contention for the playoffs at least every couple years, and makes it every few years, and as a fan, that's all you can ask to get excited for.
4 for 1 means that the collective long term benefit from the 4 likely gets close to the loss of the 1 you're giving up, and that's assuming the 1 your giving up keeps up their stats. And long term benefit is that maybe Lawrie doesn't get much better, but maybe the pitchers end up having a great year, and then one of them gets tossed in a deal asdecent trade value as part of package, the return of which includes a player and a pick trade to get someone else that turns out to be a win, helping the A's get to the playoffs again over the next couple years. Rinse and repeat.
Guessing both teams will be happy with the return in 2-3 years, but the Jays have a higher risk/reward in that time period.