One thing I’ve noticed about doing these draft write-ups, it’s a lot like doing an autopsy of a train wreck. For a club to maintain sustainability, which should be the goal of any team, instead of the boom and bust of championships followed by rebuilds, a team must have all four components of their player acquisition working - drafting and development, free agent signings, trades, and international scouting and signing.
If one of these divisions fails, the entire system begins to strain. If two or more fail, the system collapses. The result, naturally, is 100 loss seasons which eventually lead to a drop in attendance, the loss of your best free agents (who want to play for a winner), the inability to sign quality free agents, who also want to play for a winner, and a continuing carousal of new managers and general managers.