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I just think it’s funny when the premise becomes self-fulfilling.
Don’t spend money on over-priced FAs, build from within
Building from within is taking a while and funds are dropping because we suck and payroll is tied to attendance
Save money, build from within
Prospects fail or aren’t a big enough boost, still can’t compete, hemorrhaging money
better fire the GM, trade expensive players and build from within
Repeat.
Tautologies are fun. 
The idea that we can out-prospect the Angels and Rangers is laughable.  I’m glad we can now KEEP UP with them, but we’re not gonna be harvesting more Grade A talent than them in the near future.
We’re hoping to add Hultzen and Franklin by early next year, maybe more.
Well that’s nice, but the Angels are adding Mike freakin’ Trout and can now trade Trumbo for even MORE pitching if they’d like to.
The Rangers have Profar who just obliterated A-ball and is on a Franklin-esque path to the bigs in a couple of years, and Martin Perez will probably be ready for their rotation next year as their version of Taijuan Walker.
We can keep up with them in the prospecting field, but we’re not blowing them away.   Once we stop drafting top-3 it’ll probably wind up about even.
So we’d better figure out how to compete with payroll and major-league talent eye, because hoping to be the D-Rays is tough.  It took them a decade of losing, and I don’t think Zduriencik is gonna be around for 8 more years of getting whitewashed by our division foes and just stocking up on talent in the hopes that  someday, over the rainbow, we can compete. 
~G