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What about the aggregate impact of trading Hader, Rodriguez, Davies, draft picks, and international slots? Then adding to that increased investment in marginal/bounce-back players you hope will outperform recent production or repeat a season or less of above-norm production?

How does that compare to the risk that in a couple of years you could have declining return on an asset that is, at present, performing?

Yeah, Rodriquez, Davies, and Hader could be the 3,4,5 guys in the rotation at very cheap prices for years and good quality - helping to allow the team to afford paying big bucks for a couple of great players. Now, we don't have those kind of guys. We have AAAA types like Wright and Wilson. Using guys like them as starters in the majors will not work out well.

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I had many discussions with Dan this year and he is no Johnny-Come-Lately to this posture. In fact, he had Toronto winning the East and predicted a World Series win for them as well.

I'm sure he did believe Toronto was gonna win the East and World Series. Not like he was about to leave the Orioles to go there or anything. Haha

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Yeah, Rodriquez, Davies, and Hader could be the 3,4,5 guys in the rotation at very cheap prices for years and good quality - helping to allow the team to afford paying big bucks for a couple of great players. Now, we don't have those kind of guys. We have AAAA types like Wright and Wilson. Using guys like them as starters in the majors will not work out well.

Not at all trying to be confrontational, I really don't know this answer, but is it true that Wright and Wilson are not in the same class as prospects as Rodriguez, Davies, and Hader were at the time they were traded?

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