Then don't be surprised when you are called out my friend...lol.
Nobody KNOWS what a prospect or player....a relief pitcher or pinch hitter...will do, but there are always signs. And the signs allow us to establish our own personal odds of what will happen.
If you are betting that Arias is gonna be a better player than Gimenez, you are betting very long odds.
If you are betting that Jones will be a better player than Kwan, you are betting long odds.
If you used to bet that Bradley would be a better option than Naylor....(nobody would have done that a year ago, even two years ago, huh?)...you were betting very long odds.
And don't move the goalposts. You insisted that Amed would be traded by the deadline. To you still think that Tito and this FO are gonna replace our starting SS with an untested true rookie in the middle of a pennant race?
A common theme of this forum two months ago, even one month ago, was that this team could not contend for the division, and that winning a WC wasn't worth squat, so the FO should continue to trade off parts for more prospects.
Amed, Plesac, and Civale were the most widely suggested trade bait.
Raise your hand if you still want to scrap this season.