Mark from Ann Arbor, MI
Vic, I can’t believe there are so many baseball teams willing to give up multiple promising prospects in a trade for a veteran who will be an unrestricted free agent at the end of the year. Why are baseball teams so willing to give up young talent for short-term returns?
If they have a surplus of young hitters in their farm system, they can deal one or two for a pitcher. Football teams don’t have farm systems, and in the salary cap era, it’s difficult for any team to develop a stockpile of talent at any one position.