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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Saturday, July 31, 2021Trevor Story ‘confused’ after Rockies keep star shortstop at MLB trade deadline
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Posted: July 31, 2021 at 01:21 AM | 7 comment(s)
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1. Walt Davis Posted: July 31, 2021 at 03:04 AM (#6031880)Again, the last two years I haven't really paid much attention to MLB and the inner workings and under workings, so I could be wrong, but it just feels like teams gave up stuff, simply to give them up.
Blue Jays traded Austin Martin ranked #21 by BA.
a) if you were an emerging prospect at AA (say) in 2019, you're not two years older and have barely had any chance to (officially) show any development
b) If you were in A+/AA/AAA already in the top 100 at the end of 2019, you're now must two years older
c) If you were a 2019-20 draftee/signee, you're lucky if you have more than two months pro experience
I've been poo-pooing the likely outcome of some team's #9 or lower prospect ... but being #12 (or whatever) at 19 with no pro experience is probably actually pretty good. Probably half those guys who are in 9-15 now will be your #5-7 next year and sprinkled across your top 5 the next year. If a couple of those guys are 21, that's not bad. But still, seems like almost all the trades were for pigs in pokes.
Find another writer if you trade your stars for whatever you can get: how dare you tear down the franchise, don’t try and tank.
#6: Seems a bit unfair. It's at worst "trade 2 months of your stars for whatever you get." The decision not to re-sign the star player (at least at a price the star player finds acceptable) has already been made. Therefore the trade has nothing to do with the franchise tear down nor the quality of next year's team.
Now the trading team (let's call them the Cubs) does have to take into account that the team will be horrible for the next two months, Sept attendance will be pathetic and most fans will not be impressed with the return on these trades. But that adds up to "the team would probably be better off financially/PR if they hadn't made these trades ... so we can't really say that money was the motivation in the trade decisions.
What I find annoying is that maybe the two most active teams are very rich -- the Cubs and the Nats. There is zero reason teams with big money to go through a complete tear down. Who knows, maybe both teams will be very active this offseason but I'll be surprised. The Nats in particular trading Turmer is questionable although they are at least the team that got pretty big return.
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