Hindsight is 20/20
Vision is Rare
Foresight is often just luck
After last night’s bullpen meltdown, everyone is calling for the Dodgers to trade for an entirely new bullpen and gut the farm system to get Will Smith, Brad Hand, Filipe Vazquez, and Jose Leclerc… for starters. I will tell you right now that the odds of getting two of those relievers are none and getting one is slim. So, the odds are “slim and none.”
Pitching, whether it be starting or relief is problematic and hardly predictable. I can show you ten examples of where a key trade was made for a rotation or bullpen arm and the results were a disaster, but you can show me ten more examples where the results were great.