I’ve never been one to hide the fact that I disliked (as did many others too) the “Wil Myers trade” (or whatever you want to label it), mostly because it sold 24 years of potential team control (Myers, Jake Odorizzi, Mike Montgomery, Patrick Leonard) for seven years of total control in James Shields/Wade Davis (and Elliot Johnson too, I guess). The Royals are one of the smallest market teams with one of the more tighter budgets, so asset control is clearly a priority. Dayton Moore himself said this recently.
“The control of a player in today’s market, today’s economics, is everything.