Delmon Young Trade Tree: How to flip a bust for 15 years of talent#Bl9A

Delmon Young Trade Tree: How to flip a bust for 15 years of talent When Stuart Sternberg bought the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the mid-2000s, he got a team name , a stadium lease and the best prospect in baseball. Figueroa, who rose through the minors to play 23 games for the Rays, now works in the Rays front office, so theoretically the trade tree continues with his intellectual contributions. Of one prospect in particular, Kahrl wrote: Chris Archers upside is that he winds up being a perfect one-for-one replacement for Garza in the rotation over the full span of his service time. Which actually undersold it just a little bit, especially after Archer signed an early extension that would keep him under club control for almost a decade. For the Rays, drafting Young turned into something special: 1. Justin Verlander, 62.5 WAR 2. Ryan Braun, 45.0 WAR 3. Troy Tulowitzki, 44.1 WAR 4. Jon Lester, 43.6 WAR 5. Delmon Young trade tree, 41.0 WAR 6. Andrew McCutchen, 40.5 WAR That trade tree outproduced Ryan Zimmerman and Justin Upton, Matt Cain and Jered Weaver, and any number of other stars from the prospect class of 2006, and it ought to keep producing into at least the mid-2020s, more than two decades after Young was drafted.