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Originally Posted by Westheim
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This core has failed. If you're really serious about winning in the long term, you don't hold onto players for sentimental reasons. Sentimentality gets in the way of winning. Trade Alonso and get a big haul from someone, trade McNeil (and Nimmo if you can), kick in $$$ for better prospects like you did in the Verlander and Scherzer deals.
There is a belief that you can never pull off a full rebuild in New York. Wrong. You absolutely can. I'd rather attempt that than float around in 75-80 win mediocrity for the foreseeable future.