Just as parents today must be careful not to coddle their children too much, baseball fans must avoid coveting their favorite prospects. This tendency to prospect overvaluation makes sense, though. After finally learning that signing pricey and mediocre free agents and ignoring the perfectly apt replacements in the minors was the wrong way to go about things, we all got wise, fans and professionals alike. Even casual baseball fans have started scouring top 30 prospect lists and joined keeper leagues. But we may have gone to far. After the Royals traded away their upper farm system to the Royals over the weekend, the online reaction was swift and fierce, like a Viking warrior's response to someone drinking his mead. Some were calling it the worst trade in modern memory and the mood was one of disbelief, not believing that the Royals could trade away so much future value without at least some heavy hypnotic suggestion from Andrew Friedman. And sure, maybe Dayton Moore is a fool or...
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PLAYERS:
Dayton Moore,
Wil Myers,
Daisuke Matsuzaka,
Alex Gordon,
Delmon Young,
Phil Hughes,
Homer Bailey,
Cameron Maybin,
Evan Longoria,
Brandon Wood,
Justin Upton,
Tim Lincecum,
Andrew McCutchen,
Troy Tulowitzki,
Yovani Gallardo,
Jay Bruce,
Matt Garza,
Dontrelle Willis,
Miguel Cabrera,
Mike Montgomery,
Wade Davis,
Justin Verlander,
Eric Hosmer,
Mike Moustakas,
Billy Butler,
Salvador Perez,
Alcides Escobar
TEAMS: Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox
TEAMS: Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, San Diego Padres, Arizona Diamondbacks, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox
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