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Originally Posted by bluejays
Everything anyone says here is debatable but not even looking at Berrios and what he’s become, compared to what Martin and SWR have become, at the time the trade looked like an overpay based on their potential. At that time. What each of them respectively has become is a hindsight story. I really think they could have received a better calibre pitcher for that price with some astute negotiating. I see the same thing playing out with the Moreno deal. Further, debatable but I really think a lot of teams are overvaluing the banning of the shift. Certainly they have those spray charts to see where guys like Varsho tend to hit, but 2nd basemen will adjust to position themselves where they need to. It’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out that’s for sure.
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What is more reasonable? Evaluating the trade based on what's happened since, or evaluating the trade based on some unproven notion that they "could have gotten more" that has no basis in fact?
Edit: That all sounds snarkier than I mean it to be. However, I don't agree that they could have got substantially better return.