Michael Bradley wrote:Schadenfreude wrote:Michael Bradley wrote:I don't know if Aaron Sanchez being untouchable (while Stroman was being dangled for Bud Norris) is more comical or sad.
If every team had their data dumped, I guarantee that there'd be near-misses for all. Still, yeah...that's a particularly painful close call. Shipping Stroman, Syndergaard and the rest for middling players in a span of a couple years would've been the end of sanity itself.
It's not so much nearly making that deal as much as it is frightening that the man who traded Syndergaard, was willing to trade Stroman, and identified Sanchez as untouchable, is still the GM of this team. Nevermind that he was willing to halt the development of two 20-year old prospects by putting them in the big league pen out of A-Ball. Makes me a little more nervous about the trade deadline than I was before I read that post.
Going to argue that at the time of this discussion, Sanchez was the more attractive prospect for good reason. Stroman probably projected as a reliever while Sanchez looked as if he could be potentially a #1-2 starter. Sanchez was a high upside HS starter while Stroman was a college arm who's height would suggest a bullpen role. However, I wouldn't have considered moving either of those guys for Bud Norris.
