Recently Marc, over at USS Mariner, wrote an interesting piece about the Nick Rumbelow trade, and how it was the latest move to “cede the development role in AAA AND trade away a minor league team’s worth of low-minors pitchers.” We joke a whole lot about Jerry’s “trade addiction” (something I wish we didn’t joke about, since addiction and the stigma that surrounds it are painfully serious, but I can work to ignore that on my own), but as we enter the third offseason of Dipoto’s regime it’s time to start considering the underlying rationale that drives the fervor of his trades.
The fault in Dipoto's (prospective) stars
