The July shop until you drop general manager version is now in full operation. The sellers are loading up their stalls with possible luxury items for the takers and haggling negotiations will most certainly begin. The buyers will show up in droves with offers of their own and in baseball parlance that means prospects. The Boston Red Sox will be – we are informed – absent from serious dealmaking since our farm system has no “Blue Chip Prospects.”
Just what is this “Blue Chip?” Evaluators use all the resources available to decide just who is the best of the best within a system.