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Ross Atkins

👤 Speaker
287 total appearances

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

I think...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

It's just a different language now.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

So, you know, 20 years ago it was just, you know, looking through comparable trades that have happened in the past and trying to sync them up based on industry takes on players and saying, okay, these guys are kind of top 20 talent and we're getting two of them for this asset.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

And, you know, now...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

The projections are much more nuanced, and there's public information, there's internal information, and quite frankly, it is pretty efficient because it's pretty similar.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

You're going to...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

I think trades happen when there is misalignment, actually.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

When there's alignment in value, there's more holding.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

But if, for whatever reason, you're valuing a certain acquisition more than the other team, then there's a higher likelihood of that happening.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

That gap is seemingly happening less because the industry is looking at a lot of similar things.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

And

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

Now we've got to find the next opportunity, and there are teams that are better than that than others, and making sure that you're not hanging your hat too heavily on, I've got to have evidence to make this move.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

You've got to be willing to take some risk in today's game.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

Yeah.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

I mean, they don't really happen.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

I think Arise is the Adamus, maybe late May, about four or five years ago for Rasmussen and FireEisen, like that.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

Trevor Richards was actually in that trade, but...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
BIB Vault: Remembering The Ross Atkins Conversation

They don't happen, and I think it's because a couple things.