I don't think it's any harder at all. Not like the media is going to ask the tough questions if Mountcastle has a good spring and doesn't make the team.
Wouldn't have to change a lot. We don't need everybody suddenly trying to spray linedrives all over the field. We could still have power hitters swinging for the fences. The change would have an impact on the guys that can crank 20-25 in today's game.
I'm not sure you got my total point. I think you are, to some degree, looking at the return through the prism of today's game. I think guys like the O's traded were more highly valued back in the day.
I don't think all the GMs were the same type of rational then that they are now. I'm not saying they could have brought back anyone better than Mora ended up being but I do think a different GM could have received a better group of on paper guys.
It's a callback to the original trade. It's a Sports Guy quote.
It is also a fact, you don't trade for a Dana Eveland, you claim him off the waiver wire.
Did you read what I wrote before you responded? I said it "looks like" what you are suggesting. I can easily see someone (me for instance) reading that and thinking you mean for him to hang out in Baltimore. Do we even know when spring training breaks for minor leaguers? I don't think we do since the place I looked says a schedule hasn't been released yet.