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Have to agree with Ghost...Half the fun...no more than half the fun is building a home-grown team. I've had a few players that have matured into awesome players either coming up through the farm system (and remaining faithful in them despite mediocre minors seasons), and then getting the chance to play in play of an injured or non-performing vet...and blossoming.... !!! It's not often, but it keeps me excited enough to try and find "nuggets."
I think this always happens in MLB.....you have guys that are okay in one organization, and they get somewhere else and they progress mightyly....but not always...I've had received supposedly blue-chip prospects that just bombed it...either getting injured a lot....or just never meeting up to their hype....
Proven veterans...or young players with which a team can build an organization are not easily "stolen" away.....I like that challenge....I like the challenge that I have to suck a few years (and believe me I scream at my players...my S.O. wonders why all the frustration....okay, she's not a baseball fan and humors me all the time.....)....and then slowly I build and get closer..... I have won divisions but never gotten past the League Championship series....which whets my appetite even more to build and build....and hope (do I sound like a Cubs fan or a Sox fan or what??).... I wanna win, but so do a lot of teams in MLB.... It's as close as you can get to rubbing your face in the diamond on a slide to second....or being able to tell Steinbrenner that he's a prick....and buying a team guarantees nothing!!!
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