I don’t know. I think the time for making a lot of those arguments was at the deadline, not after they go in a tailspin and the guy gets injured. Hindsight shows it was a disaster obviously.
But I maintain that major league teams have ample draft picks to stock their prospect pool. One sell off at the deadline is relatively insignificant towards building a contender whereas Ohtani is the definition of a generational talent. You want to argue the Angels aren’t well run, sure. That was true before the deadline IMO, not because they want to do everything they could to keep the guy.
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