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Originally Posted by Jason14h
I think my biggest issue is the complaining about trading prospects.
Baseball is a game where every year a hundred new guys become top prospects and a hundred drop off.
While it really sucks to trade a prospects who turn into Noah Syndergaard, more often then not they turn into nothing.
The key is identifying the untouchables (Sanchez, Pompey, Osuna) and move the rest when you think you have a chance to win.
The Yankees use to do this all the time. Every year they would trade a new #1 prospect who you would never hear about again.
Sure in the long run if you do this every year you will eventually suck. But guess what, that the cyclical nature of sports.
The point of the sport is to win the World Series, not have an above average team forever. I sometimes think in today's analytical world GM's would rather win 90 games with an 80 million payroll then the World Series with a 120 million cause it makes them look smarter.
Will Shapiro do a good job? Maybe. But after the run we just had and the balls AA had to make the moves, to handcuff him on decision making seems completely sideways and a typical Toronto sports thing to do.
I can't imagine any other team messing this situation up as badly.
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I don't know about that.
If you look at the top teams in MLB (San Francisco, St. Louis, Boston and now maybe KC) the big thing that they have done to ensure that they aren't 1 and done is that they continually are able to turn over their roster by bringing in home grown talent. If you are constantly trading away prospects or failing to develop them then you are at the mercy of paying (usually overpaying) for FA's to fill those holes.
The Yankees went from winning 4 title in 5/6 years to the inconsistent semi-threats because they originally developed Jeter, Petite, Rivera, Posada so that they big money was spent on adding to that. Now they have Brett Gardner and ???? so they have to spend money chasing CC, Texeiria, Pineda etc.
Now obviously saying just do it like San Fran, St. Louis and Boston is a lot easier said than done but I think you a very much undervaluing prospects and the turnover of top guys.
I would also say that it is much easier to sell all your prospects and going for it than building a team with patience and smarts. Look at this situation AA is getting tons of credit/love for making big moves even though they may result in 0 World Series and 0 World Series appearances.