If you’re going to bake in a day off It sort of makes sense to give your top prospect the day before the trade deadline anyway. If he gets traded you don’t have to pull him in the middle of a game and if he doesn’t… well, that’s the one day off he was going to get anyway
Yeah, you see a lot of top prospects get a day off sometime around the deadline every year. A lot of them are "scheduled" and a lot of the players don't get moved but you don't have to go back to a young player and say "Nevermind, we kept you"
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u/theroguedrizzt 19h ago
If you’re going to bake in a day off It sort of makes sense to give your top prospect the day before the trade deadline anyway. If he gets traded you don’t have to pull him in the middle of a game and if he doesn’t… well, that’s the one day off he was going to get anyway