Management is dumb to give up a year of having this core together. Go get some arms. Similar to leafs there is a countdown and have to position the team to win while they have these cores together.
has shatkins shown any willingness, ever, to trade prospects for MLB ready talent?
I just meant like ever in their history as executivesThey've never been in position to want to. For years we kept telling to trade away their MLB talent for prospects.
Of course, for the record, I concur with Anne's theory - they will finally pull the trigger on someone, and they will last about 3 games before they get injured. Given the team's track record, they will then call up some scrub from AAA, who will pitch 4-5 games of absolutely dominant baseball, before we finally give them a high leverage chance and they go walk 6 batters in a row to blow the game, before being placed on the IL with "forearm tightness".
I just meant like ever in their history as executives
They traded prospects for Stripling. Kendall WIlliams is an actual prospect. Ryan Noda not so much but I wouldn't be surprised to see him turn into something for the Dodgers. They traded kind of a prospect (Griffin Conine) for Jonathan Villar. A couple sort of prospects (SRF and Yennsy Diaz for Matz).
The problem isn't really the category of player they're willing to trade, it's the risk they're willing to take (almost none) and the resulting calibre of player you can get for guys like that.
They've never been in position to want to. For years we kept telling to trade away their MLB talent for prospects.
Of course, for the record, I concur with Anne's theory - they will finally pull the trigger on someone, and they will last about 3 games before they get injured. Given the team's track record, they will then call up some scrub from AAA, who will pitch 4-5 games of absolutely dominant baseball, before we finally give them a high leverage chance and they go walk 6 batters in a row to blow the game, before being placed on the IL with "forearm tightness".
You don’t dump teams quality prospects for the sake of making a trade
Team is clearly making progress with a young lineup , but pitching injuries killed them
They would be 5 games better right now in the win column