Baseball is a damn funny game, one rich with nuance and open to infinite interpretations. There is no salary cap, there is no salary floor, and MLB is one of the very few professional leagues of any sport that has a dedicated farm system at its disposal to give you tangible views into what a team will look like down the road. It has 30 different economies of scale in its respective franchises, each of whom go about their business in different ways with different development strategies, draft convictions, budgets, and statistical evaluations than their peers.
Sometimes, the game churns up parallel stories that help portray exactly how difficult it is to place an accurate valuation on the talent we get to watch everyday, and that very thing happened today.