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Why in the world would they have wanted to be in the Vernon Wells trade talks? For one thing, Moneyball or no Moneyball, they're not going to contend this year. That team is awful and has been run awfully for several years. Vernon Wells is the kind of guy who, if released, might be a decent sort of minimum-wage pickup for a team like the Astros, in that they can take a flier on him to see if he has anything left in the tank and if so perhaps they could flip him at the trade deadline, but as a trade chit? Oh heck no, not even for non-prospects on the level the Yankees sent out. If nothing else, he'd be a drain on the team's resources. The team has nothing in common with the A's of the early 2000s and Wells has nothing in common with Dave Justice from that period.
To put this back into OOTP perspective, even OOTP, GMing quirks aside, has a "Rebuilding" mode in which they eschew the likes of a Vernon Wells.
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The Great American Baseball Thrift Book - Like reading the Sporting News from back in the day, only with fake players. REAL LIFE DRAMA THOUGH maybe not
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