(04-15-2024, 10:36 PM)StrayaJag Wrote:

(04-15-2024, 10:30 PM)Jag149 Wrote: I second that feeling.  Whatever it is I am 80% sure no one will understand at least for a bit.  My only hope is this board has the bandwidth to handle it...

Alot of people, including me got excited last year when we traded back a number of times got Anton and secured more picks..
Just sucks in hindsight looking at what we wasted those picks on

People just assume you can find a willing trade partner at any point in the draft.  You can't always.  If there's a lesson here, it's to not assume you can trade up to specific points in the draft.  That lesson can be for Baalke as well as people on this message board.  If Baalke traded back each time and still got his guy (we know Anton was his guy in the 1st), no harm no foul, but if he traded back and missed out on his target because of it thinking he'd still get his guy here and be able to trade back up at some other point in the draft with the additional draft capital to get another target, then that's a big mistake.  Sometimes you should just sit and pick and let the draft come to you instead of trying to impose your will and taking on undue risk to "make things happen".

But the bottom line is, just because pick #X is worth Y on the draft pick trade chart, doesn't mean that if you offer Team Z that amount of draft capital or even slightly more that Team Z will be willing to come off the pick for you.  And there may be stretches in a draft where multiple teams in a row have the draft graded and tiered similarly and are locked in on a guy at their spot and aren't coming off the pick unless you way overpay.  I think this simple fact gets grossly downplayed or overlooked around here.

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