What you can't do is months after the fact, sweep it all underneath the figurative rug.

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The main acquisition at the Major League Baseball Trade deadline by Ben Charrington was Brian Della Cruz.

They will attempt, and have already kind of begun to, attempt convincing people that it was just a bunch of trades and he was just one of the guys who came along. The problem with that approach is that people in this line of work, you know, we record conversations for a living. Then we transcribe those and we share

them with the public. So they're like everywhere.

So you can find evidence aplenty that Delacruz was the guy, was the target, was the player they wanted.

Did they see him as the next Mike Trout?

No, of course not.

So I'm not going to inflate that.

But I will trigger your own memory, and you're going to

remember this since you follow the team so closely that you pushed play on this today, that

Charrington said at the time of the trade that one of the things he liked most about Delacruz

was that the team had him under control for three more years.

If you don't know what under control means,

the easiest way to lay that out is however many years there are

until a player can just become a free agent.

And in Delacruz's case, he has three full seasons of arbitration eligibility

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