Now that the Angels' season is essentially over, I want to be the first to congratulate Bill Stoneman for a job well done. It is clear, from listening to Stoneman, that a general manager's job is to hold on to every single prospect in the organization and not trade him for anything unless part of a one-sided deal (viz., Erick Aybar for Alfonso Soriano).
Why on earth would he have wanted to trade for has-beens like Carlos Delgado or Jim Thome when he could waste at-bats (and games) on guys like Kendry Morales, Reggie Willits, Tommy Murphy, Dallas MacPherson and Jeff Mathis and thus expose all but a few of these "prospects" as either not ready or not good enough, diminishing their trade value further?
