Baseball, like all other sports, is a business and as such must be run with an eye towards the future, not just the present. I understand and fully accept this fact. This year’s team is eight games under .500 and going nowhere. So management decided on a fire sale. Overnight, they traded away their best starting pitcher and future Hall of Farmer, Max Scherzer. Then they traded away their two best relief pitchers, Daniel Hudson and Brad Hand. But they were just getting warmed up. Next on the block was Kyle Schwarber, a fan favorite who earlier this year went on a home run hitting streak that was one of the most prolific of all time. But the last trade is the one that has National’s fans crying in their beer. Trea Turner has been the most consistent player on this team for the past three years and one of the best 15 or so players in all of baseball, and unlike some of these other guys who got traded, he’s young. He is on a Hall of Fame pace through the first seven years of his career. Now, he’s gone.
I wonder what Juan Soto is thinking this morning? Poor guy wakes up and learns that all the best players on his team are gone and he’s left surrounded by a bunch of stiffs.
But, what did the Nationals get in return for all this talent they dealt away? One word…prospects. Mostly a bunch of guys you’ve never heard of, primarily because most of them have yet to play a single game in the big leagues.
So, was this trading frenzy a good or bad move? Too early to yell. Right now, it means that the Nationals are going to be God awful for the next couple of years. But if this batch of prospects pans out, we might look back on it later and call Mike Rizzo a genius. Still…its going to be painful to watch the Dodgers win the World Series this year with Max Scherzer and Trea Turner in their starting lineup.
Go Sox!!!
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