He listens to suggestions about players he should pluck away from other teams via trade. He marvels at the ability of others to tell him how to spend his money; would he ever walk into their home office and make a few pronouncements about where to invest and how much to risk? The trade activists never name which Orioles to bid goodbye to, unless it’s the third-string catcher. Trade pushers forget about the hard part, shipping a player off to a city across the country and disrupting family lives and shattering expectations, not to mention disrupting their personal flow of routines, rent,
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