You may or may not have noticed a bunch of Japanese pitchers coming through the door (and right back out) the last few years.
The AI trading difficulty is set to average and the preference to neutral. Think of standard values, since I've never seen that screen before.
Obviously they see something in those two prospects that we do not, since it was not Workman they really wanted, they wanted those two. Workman was demoted to AAA almost instantly, where he is batting .342 with four homers in nine games. OPS of 1.090
Something prompted me to make similar trades before... although I can't come up with similarly lop-sided trades where the Raccoons grabbed garbage. A few years ago, I shipped in that hot pitching prospect Francisco Trujillo, but I can't remember for whom. That slacker has since busted big time.
And there's Orlando Lantán, who was supposed to be The Answer. He's not likely to stick at the majors for much longer.