(05-06-2023, 02:57 AM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: I heard Trent say we traded down and still got the players we wanted. I also heard him say we tried to trade up, but we weren’t able to.

No one having knowledge of the draft board aside from the few making the decisions means he can say whatever he wants.  And no GM is ever going to say "well we really wanted player X, but we couldn't find a trade partner to trade up to get him so we settled for player Y and man are we elated to have him."  We'll never know if he's telling the whole truth or not.  I do think we got who we targeted in the 1st and 2nd round based on the comments from Beane on the trade back in the 1st and the comment Baalke made about not wanting to leave a paper trail on Strange and with Strange projected to go in the 2nd or 3rd.  We took him at the high end of his projected range because they clearly didn't want to chance missing out on him.  Admittedly, his comment could still be fluff, but it just didn't strike me as such and it makes me lean heavily toward they were targeting him in the 2nd all along.

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