If people start regretting Montas I guess I'm just going to have to ask if you punch yourself in the nuts for not buying scratch tickets every time you see a sign on a door about a local winner.
The point is, prospects mostly fail. This has to be priced into their value. You can bitch and moan about your team's ability to identify who is "real" and who is not, but there is not actually a ton of evidence that any teams are better at picking out prospects consistently. Ex post analysis of these trades is fine but when it turns into a whine fest it's annoying and ignores the practical realities of how the business of baseball is conducted. I'm not saying Montana Fan did this in posting the article. I am saying the FSB seems to be making this his modus operandi.
The point is, prospects mostly fail. This has to be priced into their value. You can bitch and moan about your team's ability to identify who is "real" and who is not, but there is not actually a ton of evidence that any teams are better at picking out prospects consistently. Ex post analysis of these trades is fine but when it turns into a whine fest it's annoying and ignores the practical realities of how the business of baseball is conducted. I'm not saying Montana Fan did this in posting the article. I am saying the FSB seems to be making this his modus operandi.