The Brewers have done a heck of a job making moves without sacrificing the flow of talent with upside in forthcoming years. I would have hated an overpay for a short term gain. You want to see that steady stream of talent joining the big league team, and we did not disrupt that, thankfully. Not every prospect will excel at the MLB level, but it's a numbers game. Give yourself enough solid prospects, and some will emerge. If you trade some off, you fall behind in the numbers game. Short of a Ryan Braun type, there is hardly a guy who is a sure thing. What you want your franchise to do is make shrewd decisions that keeps you on the right side of the odds. Take SS, we are looking at Turang, Zamora, Guillarte, Pratt, Eduardo Garcia. Lot of potential upside. Odds are you can get at least 1-2 solid shortstops out of that mix, and that's a tough skill set to come by.
If you do trade away assets, it has to be in favor of value back or a redundancy where you might lose them anyway via Rule 5, etc.
I like our approach that we are maintaining the steady stream and trying to keep our numbers in order.