What’s hilarious about Cherington’s trade track record is that you can legitimately argue for multiple trades as being his “worst trades”, simply because of how many bad trades he has made.
I can’t wait for him to be fired.
In one way, you know, you lose some trades. A 4.3 WAR loss isn’t nothing but it’s not the worst.
But it’s just one on a pile. It’s not like we have the “we traded a decent SP (3.7 WAR) for a solid reliever and a top hitting prospect (8 WAR combined so far)” equivalent. Everything GMBC does in this space is mediocre at best
Cherington’s issue with the Pirates has been he rarely trades for the high-upside, high-risk prospect.
Instead he has usually traded for three or four low-risk prospects so he could “flood the zone” with a bunch of bodies in the minor leagues.
That is why a few years ago the Pirates lost something like 11 prospects in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft. Cherington had collected enough prospects that were interesting enough to catch the eye of other teams but only a few were true stars.
He has been frightened at targeting one top 100 prospect with almost any of his trades. And while I could understand that approach when he started at the Pirates (Huntington left the pipeline kind of dry when he was fired), there is almost no reason for why BC continues to do it to this day.
Pirates traded a two time TJ surgery player who also missed a ton of time of his development because of a cancer diagnosis. Sorry they got a bunch of lottery tickets who didn’t make it instead of Aaron Judge
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What’s hilarious about Cherington’s trade track record is that you can legitimately argue for multiple trades as being his “worst trades”, simply because of how many bad trades he has made.
I can’t wait for him to be fired.
In one way, you know, you lose some trades. A 4.3 WAR loss isn’t nothing but it’s not the worst.
But it’s just one on a pile. It’s not like we have the “we traded a decent SP (3.7 WAR) for a solid reliever and a top hitting prospect (8 WAR combined so far)” equivalent. Everything GMBC does in this space is mediocre at best
Cherington’s issue with the Pirates has been he rarely trades for the high-upside, high-risk prospect.
Instead he has usually traded for three or four low-risk prospects so he could “flood the zone” with a bunch of bodies in the minor leagues.
That is why a few years ago the Pirates lost something like 11 prospects in the minor league portion of the Rule 5 draft. Cherington had collected enough prospects that were interesting enough to catch the eye of other teams but only a few were true stars.
He has been frightened at targeting one top 100 prospect with almost any of his trades. And while I could understand that approach when he started at the Pirates (Huntington left the pipeline kind of dry when he was fired), there is almost no reason for why BC continues to do it to this day.
Pirates traded a two time TJ surgery player who also missed a ton of time of his development because of a cancer diagnosis. Sorry they got a bunch of lottery tickets who didn’t make it instead of Aaron Judge