If ‘small-market’ teams like the Cubs can't make it, what hope is there?
by Jesse Spector from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#5C6Y4)
If this is the reality of baseball, then something about the system needs to change. Trades of top talent for prospects are nothing new in the game, of course, but you don't expect to see the teams giving up on frontline starting pitchers to be making those trades when they're in the middle of a window of contention.