Again, 15 games. We did not go from a rebuilding team to a contender over the course of 15 games. Plug in an ace and a solid #3 for what Davies and Milone (a decent Garza?) have been doing and we're a playoff team at this stage. The rebuild is done other than adding/subtracting here and there, now we sit and wait for it to mature. Agreed, I don't think selling major assets(outside of maybe Braun) is something you do anymore and competing might not be far off. We have two league minimum top prospects waiting to be called up. The top lefty prospect in the game and the 4th best OF prospect. We also have two other pretty major pitchers in Ortiz/Woodruff knocking on the door. That is a whole lot of talent about to hit the MLB team and that is before considering our non existent payroll. One could easily make an attempt to compete next year without ruining the future payroll or trading away prospects. Not sure Stearns does that, but I certainly don't think trading Thames is even remotely on the radar no matter what. Because if we don't start making moves this offseason it certainly will happen post-2018. A lot of that depends if this offense is for real or not. This offense could prove to be pretty darn good going into next year.