It’s not a coincidence that currently, as well as over the past years, some of the best pitchers were “prospects” acquired for established players or established pitchers at the trade deadline. That’s where you should start.
It seems to me that in the past few days, many of you are getting down on the Dodgers front office, specifically Friedman and Zaidi. Let me remind you that they have only been with the Dodgers for seven or eight months. Ned Colletti was there for many years – so this is too small of a sampling to execute judgement.
Some of you had “no idea” how good Yasmani Grandal could be.