2017 MLB Trade Deadline (Non-Sox)

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#WhiteSox have acquired OF Eloy Jiménez, RHP Dylan Cease, 1B Matt Rose & INF Bryant Flete from the Cubs in exchange for LHP José Quintana.

The White Sox are not doing this whole rebuild thing half-heartedly. Is Lucas Giolito even in their Top 10? My god.

I hope they're successful so the Red Sox follow that plan when it's time. Half hearted rebuilds are a good way to never rebuild.

From 2003 to 2009 the Red Sox won two World Series, went to the ALCS four times, and missed the playoffs only once. Piecemeal rebuilds are sometimes the way to rebuild.

Yep. It has to be in the right situation for sure. A situation like, say, a quartet of Under-25 players as good as Betts, Bogaerts, Benintendi, and Devers.

Like, it's easy to say that the Mariners should have sold on Felix Hernandez when he was at his peak a few years back. But that wouldn't have helped the Mariners inability to identify and develop talent.

Anyway, this was the White Sox top 10 in November: www.baseballamerica.com/minors/2017-chicago-white-sox-top-10-prospects/#OYds2OT3kUjJ09ZK.97

Good news for Seattle is that Dipoto seems to have a good eye for talent and isn't gun shy with trades. He believed in Segura, who by all accounts looks like a stud now. They're on the right track IMO.

Why is the pool going to be pretty barren? Or is the assumption that Dombrowski is going to trade literally everyone away for injured relief pitchers?

We have no idea what they'll acquire in terms of minor league talent in the next few seasons. There's no reason to assume that the cupboard is going to go completely bare.

After Devers makes it and possibly Chavis, it looks like it will be a few years before there are any impact players because of all the recent prospects traded.  And that's where they usually start making mistakes in free agency and trades to fill in holes.  For instance, if they didn't have JBJ, they probably would have been a lot more interested in re-signing Ellsbury.

If they don't have someone to replace JBJ, they'll be a lot more likely to sign him to a stupid contract.

The Cards have been doing it forever, too.

It takes great front offices too though. The Padres have been failing miserably for a long time trying to rebuild.

True. St Louis has been blessed with a weak division for years (until now). Teams like the CWS, Houston, like you said, San Diego, Minnesota, can "throw away" a few years to get there, or at least try to get there. I remember when Theo just mentioned the words "bridge year", he almost got strung up.

Lol ah yes, the dreaded "bridge year", which a lot of people were labeling 2013 in the preseason when we signed bridge players like Napoli and Victorino, who of course combined for almost 10 WAR in their first year.

A lot of people have derisively labeled every single season a "bridge year" since the 2010 team (which won 89 games and would've won the wild card under the current rules!). It's the annoying one-off quote that will not effing die.




The Yankees are actually a good example of a team that both has consistently contended but also timed a rebuild right to supplement their system. The Yankees 2016 was like the Red Sox 2014, except the Yankees sold their valuable assets for real and didn't demand major league players in return in a lame attempt to save the GM's job. The franchise would've been better off if they'd sold Uehara and Tazawa at the 2014 midseason. And, uhhh, I think I've made my feelings on the Lackey trade known.