baltimore traded bedard for draft choices. oakland traded gio for draft choices. these teams and others have been doing this for awhile. now it is working out; for once. washington has been active trading and buying, which sets them apart from the other two, but the nationals are proof that given every opportunity to draft there way to respectability, they had to do free agency and trade to put them over. they stole gio for nothing much, yet the A's still have pitching. well, no one will mistake these teams for the sox or yankees when it comes to building a winner. fans here are not going to be patient with their money, if the team tries to build predominently from the farm, as these other teams we have discussed have been doing.