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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
But it is disingenuous to suggest they won't get anything better every year.
Some years (most) you don't hit home runs. Sometimes you do. Yes, you need to have picks in order to hit those home runs.
But my problem with your argument is that you are extrapolating Hamonic into every year. That makes no sense.
making a trade like that every year would be disastrous, yes. But they aren't. Doing it once, when you are pretty sure of what you need, is perfectly reasonable.
Surety is better than chance, once in a while (as long as you take advantage of chance most years).
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Understood which is why I said that was the wrong time for that trade. Flames weren't asset rich enough to make the Harmonic trade at that time. And it's not just the Harmonic trade that saw picks go out the door.
All that said, I still believe Harmonic should not have cost what he did. So even if you believe he was the missing piece to a contending team, he should have cost less IMO or you look at a different option.
Hopefully the anti-Gulutzan posters are right and we see that this team is a good coach away from contending.