As we've seen even around Seattle, if a GM sheds a player that is perceived as an exciting young top-100 talent, and if that move doesn't work out perfectly, that GM is liable to hear about it for the rest of his LIFE. Literally.
And, am not sure that inside baseball, the laughing isn't almost as bad as it is on some blogs.
This way, if Chiang pans out, most people will give it a pass as "the best information we had at the time." :- )
Same reason that nobody got fired over not drafting Tim Lincecum. Lot of cover-your kiester goes on in baseball.
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Their loss, our gain, if the *actual* best info at the time (the Eastern League [1000-OPS and U-26] table) holds up.
Wouldn't blame Epstein if he thought even more highly of Chiang than Lavarnway, but didn't want to deal with the flak.
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