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You know, sometimes you have to take a shot. Especially if you're the Royals or the Mariners skulking along the bottom of the river eating mud. I STILL don't think the Bedard-Jones trade was a horrible idea. It worked out horribly. You can't argue that (although it wasn't as unbalanced as people pretend). If Bedard had remained healthy - big if, I know, but that was the bet. Sometimes, you stack the chips and roll.
The beauty of Jack's regime is the ability to find real talent in the draft so that you have way more chips. I'm not persuaded Jack has sufficient other abilities to build a champion, but the draft is the real advantage between Jack and the prior regime. He hasn't proven himself so far to be any better at evaluating MLB talent, but at least the M's now have a farm system.