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Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ
Not just for relief guys. People fail to realize how light the return is for anything other than a Soto situation. Rental pitchers and hitters don't go for top 20 prospects anymore. You aren't getting 3 months of CC sabathia for Matt Leporta in 2024.
The whole "let's have a fire sale and restock the system" is mostly nonsense. Ragans is a nice player obviously, but nobody is giving up their entire farm system for a guy with 2 TJ surgeries and barely one whole year of success. Lugo is a nice story, but he's 34 and has never pitched more than 146 innings in a season. The return isn't going to be massive there either. Salvy has maybe one more year in him, if that. If we got say, the 50th best prospect(around what Verlander got last year) and the 78th best prospect and some other fringe prospects for all of those guys, are we really all sitting around thrilled at where the team is at? I doubt it. That doesn't put us in the top 10 of minor league systems. There still aren't any cant miss guys. The future is just as unsettled as if we traded away some of our guys at the deadline this year.
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Yeah, exactly.
Position players with control are still kind of expensive to acquire, but half seasons of relief pitchers cost you a lotto ticket. Ragans was a lotto ticket who just happened to hit for KC.
Normally, you're getting guys like C.J. Alexander back in return.
They could improve this team a lot by trading for a few RP rentals.