(06-13-2026, 05:20 PM)KillerLeft Wrote: I wish I could like this post twice. Tiers are one thing, but even if the players are arranged accurately into tiers, they're not close to being interchangeable. If there's a guy the front office has identified as having a deeper bag of skills and more potential than the rest, as well as the right personality traits required to fit in here and kill himself to get to the next level (neither of which are givens), then I absolutely think it's worth aggressively trying to move up to get him.
It seems like many on the board believe the players from around 5 to 15ish are all the exact, same quality of prospect. If they're right, then trading down might be smart, but I can't even begin to fathom how they've reached that conclusion. I think the biggest gap in this draft is between tiers 2 and 3, personally, and my goal as a GM would be to identify all of the players from the top 10 I really, really wanted, and then to aggressively pursue the highest name on that list I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting. To a certain extent, this IS the Flagg era on the line this summer. The rookie contract part of it, at least. One GREAT addition moves the needle 100x more than 2-3 mediocre ones.
So out of curiosity, who is in your tier 2? Who would you spend the assets it would take to move up to 5 in order to make sure you got?
I think its hard to be confident enough to pay the assets to move up for "that guy". That is why you don't see teams moving up that often in the draft. Masai has been drafting for a long time and he has very little history of moving around in the draft.