What the players acquired in those deals actually become? What if Haniger outshines even what many think is likely? What is almost the entirety of his clock worth in prospects at that point? I'm just saying that they've not gotten nothing in return. In many cases. What if Dee Gordon proves to be both a top 5 defensive CF and leadoff hitter? What if Gonzales can turn his lefty change game into something resembling Moyer? I'm not making any bets. Fangraphs lists it at negative value but 60 grade. Segura, Miranda, Gamel, Healy, Ramirez, Armstrong, Leake, Phelps, Vogelbach, De Jong, Vincent, Pazos, Motter and Harper is a longer list of currently active players Dipoto traded for. With what we've seen at catcher most years since Clinton was in office, Marjama could be a godsend backing up Zunino and Barton came in with him. There's also 4 or 5 pitchers who've gone to Japan since he got them, for whatever that's worth. They didn't want to be a part of the 40? There's also international money acquired that likely gets used although for some reason many have said it wouldn't be. Even before Armstrong and Misiewicz were acquired with it.
Do they see something in the Brian Bonnell, James Lovett and even Joey Curletta type moves and will they eventually show up on the radar, though their acquisitions largely did not?
I see moves looking back that I disliked at the time. A few others that look pretty bad in retrospect. It's hard to say that Miranda isn't preferable to Smith and Elias currently although none are done adding on.
My dad used to like to say "If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall". Are we past the point of prospect outgo? The farm can be filled in if there aren't so many holes being poked in it frequently. It seems to me that if a stage of filling out the minors with more and more of your players to develop is what we've entered, grading the entire plan now would be premature.