It’s great to have knee-jerk reactions to a trade, and in fact as fans on the interwebs it is arguably our god given right. Then the dust clears and you think, “OK, these front offices have more information than I do and have done this ‘trade guys thing’ many times before. Perhaps I should try to figure out their thought process instead of just my initial feelings.”
In psychology this might be known as the “acceptance” stage that follows the anger and denial phases. And that is where this article finds us on a chilly but sunny Saturday in A’s-land.