Aroldis Chapman

Yes absolutely true. On the other hand you have to make trades to build a quality team. I don't think you can look at moves in a vacuum and say this one is awful they shouldn't have done it or this one is great. A GM needs to build a complete team to compete for a championship at a given period of time. If you always wait for the deal you 109% win beit a free agent signing it a trade then there is a great likelihood that your team always has a fatal flaw in it.

Everyone looks at all the players available and say player X could have been had for this so that was better value. There are several issues with that line of thinking. It assumes everyone can be had by you at that price you stated. It assumes everyone thinks players have similar value. It also ignore how pieces fit together. People who make teams on spreadsheets think that all teams with a cumulative 37 WAR (on paper) will perform the same regardless of how those players fit together.


If DD looked around baseball and decided to win a WS he needed one of the.best relief pitchers in the game then be probably realized only two of those guys were truly available to him. He got the one who is 27 with 3 years of control left by giving up an expensive package but without touching one (Margot is the one arguable) of the top 10 young guys. And Margot is trying to break into a strong young MLB outfield and has another top prospect pushing him (AB).

Before the trade look at the top young players in the Sox system in one persons eyes:

1. Bogaerts
2. Betts
3. Rodriguez
4. Swithart
5. Moncada
6. Owens
7. Vazquez
8. Bradley
9. Espinoza
10. Devers
11. Margot
12. Benetendi
13. Guerra