Part of the art of being a GM is not just knowing what players to acquire - it’s knowing when to let them go. “Sell high” is an important talent, and it’s also useful to be able to tell when to let a player walk. As was discussed in yesterday’s Snake Bytes, it seems like a lot of the players the D-backs let go last winter are not doing so well this season. But is that just a result of awareness bias? To check, I went through last year’s D-backs roster. The criteria was that they had to be under control at the end of the year (so, for example, no Jorge De La Rosa, who was released by the team in August) and were released or traded between then and Opening Day.
The Curse of the Departed D-backs
