It seems like on of Trent Baalke's GM strategies is to find a market inefficiency and exploit it - or, at the very least, an underutilized strategy that can be embraced to good effect. Please, insert your Moneyball joke of choice here, preferably something to do with Jed York ("when Jed hears the term Moneyball, all he thinks about are stadium revenues!").
But, the point is true. Just today, we had a discussion in the Golden Nuggets about the viability of the redshirt strategy, most notably in light of Marcus Lattimore's remarks that he was surprised to be drafted after his knee injuries.