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Agree 100% on the TNT tool. Everyone with an idea for a trade or a FA signing should sit down for a few minutes and try to play GM with it.
I wonder if this is effectively the reason that Scott at Lookout Landing opted out of an 'off season plan' for the M's this year. When wholesale changes are needed, it's fun. When there's already a decent amount of talent, and the decision is which of that talent to jettison, things are more problematic.
Which makes me wonder if the assessment of possible trade partners should not be based foremost on which pieces we covet...but rather on which teams most need an influx of 3-4 promising pieces in exchange for one of their few stars.
Five-for-one, indeed.