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Originally Posted by fleury
I honestly can’t remember the majority of the deals at the beginning but he did deal for Lawrie, who at the time was a very highly touted prospect. Which is how Donaldson came to be. I’m sure there were others, but there was a definite plan in place to get picks from losing guys and such to qualifying offers.
As for having a plan in place for Atkins and Shapiro, to be clear, you don’t work for an organization and not have a plan. Behind the scenes they 100% have one drawn up and probably pitched to the board. I don’t have line of sight on what that is exactly. What I’m seeing is possibly flawed execution on getting higher end prospect talent through deals. So far none of these guys are highly touted. The foreign signings from abroad look to be but these guys that they’re trading for seem to have a significant ceiling or small chance of reaching that ceiling.
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I think baseball has changed and changed very recently, like within the last year or two. Teams no longer are willing to give up top prospects, it is becoming more and more rare that teams deal from their top 10 prospects and even more rare that they deal from the top 5. So while you can judge Atkins and Shapiro for not getting blue chip prospects, but I don't think that is entirely fair as those players just aren't available in trades anymore, and on top of that we really don't have assets to pry those type of returns from teams.
Sanchez and Stroman might get you top end prospects in return, but even that is no sure thing as neither player can stay on the field and when they are on the field they have been really inconsistent.