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This is a pretty weird defense of the Shields/Myers trade. Yeah, the Royals wound up with a 120 ERA+, but (to use a sentence structure you bring up a lot when discussing efficiency) the award at the end of the season is for wins, not for ERA+ (or $/WAR). If you're arguing that people should've moderated criticism after the Royals' staff became dominant, shouldn't you also be arguing that people should've intensified criticism after Wil Myers went over to Tampa Bay and 131 wRC+'ed it up? Especially given that the Royals were running out an RF combo of Jeff Francouer, weak-hitting CF Lorenzo Cain, short-side platooner David Lough, and deadline pickup Justin Maxwell?