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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
In addition to what Textcritic already wrote about the Hamonic trade not paying off..so far, the only other thing I'd add is that I think fans aren't too safe, they're far too speculative.
There's an obsession with magic beans management. The idea that what we have on the farm, what we have in our junior prospects, what we have in our future draft picks, is going to be the thing that pushes us over the edge and that they should be promoted to the big club right away and replace the vets who are over-the-hill and don't play hungry or with passion.
Fans tend to forget that the GM is making moves to win and also to preserve his job. Call it old school outdated thinking but 99% of GMs are wary of adopting a strategy that relies heavily on drafting top end talent, especially with mid round picks, because in all likelihood they'll be fired well before those picks ever payoff, if they ever do.
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I believe this is accurate but question remains as to whether Treliving received good value for trading those premium picks.