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Bemusing to me, too, how the low-minors pitchers got so valuable all of a sudden. :- ) There is a lot of injury screening to pass through before these low-minors arms ever contribute in the majors, and that's even assuming they're good prospects.
As usual, they're hot prospects the day after we trade them.
Honestly, though, I will give the pundits credit for consistency: I guess they just hate to see minor-league talent spent, even if they're nowhere near the org top 10. So I can respect the consistency of paradigm. Maybe some of the bias against the Bedard trade was occurring on a paradigm, rather than personal, level.