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Originally Posted by The God Hypothesis
Shoot me now:
And you forgot that KC spent $30M in extra payroll the last two years to get Shields/Davis, which could have been used on a decent free agent starter, and keep Odorizzi & Myers, and they would have been just as good, if not a playoff team (if the FA pitcher had been Anibel Sanchez who signed a back loaded deal with the Tigers that pays him less than $25M over those seasons)
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You can literally go back and find posters arguing this exact same point when the trade happened.
We don't even need hindsight to see how flawed the approach was. Keeping the players and reallocating the dollars was always the approach that DM should have taken, but he's just too ****ing stupid (or narrow-minded) to consider the possibility.