You seem very conservative and pro-ownership, which is fine, but your supporting points fail scrutiny so often. This one I highlighted, the timeline as you remember it is completely wrong. Sonny Gray wasn't spoken of as a trade target until last summer (I remember this because I was one of the earliest, loudest voices for Gray.) But by last summer, Jose Berrios was showing quality stuff as a starting pitcher. There's no chance anyone would have seriously proposed sending Berrios in a trade for Gray, except as satire or tongue in cheek. By the way, the Odorizzi trade looks like a vastly better deal for the Twins than any Gray trade would have been.