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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Always interesting seeing the age ranges changing.
In the offseason Conroy talked about 18-23 year olds and that now has changed to 25 and now 26.
Probably gives you a good idea how hard it is to get players in that 18-23 age range that can make an impact unless you are drafting them.
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Not only this, but guys that are 18-23 very rarely make an immediate impact on team success long term. The ones that do are usually not going to be traded.
Those younger ages were when Craig was positioning for a longer term retool/build whatever you want to call it.
The emergence of Wolf and the trade for Frost and Farabee coupled with the team's inability to be "bad" means that Craig has had to shift his mentality and look to make this team younger but more competitive.
This just further reinforces that we're not going to be trading away all the veterans for young prospects and picks. The complete teardown whether you agree with it or not, is not happening.
We started the re-tool and we're going to see that play out.