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Your points are well taken.  I don't dispute that for those reasons mentioned, that Correa may have indeed been the closest non-protectee to having gotten protected. 

Even if he wasn't, it may still have been that guys like Sanders or Thompson might have been closer than Devers or Franklin.  They might not have even been considered. 

But yeah, as Dahlen says, *if* hypothetically somebody takes and keeps Correa, or Sanders, I kinda feel like that's the way it goes.  You can't protect every wild reliever, and if somebody else grabs one of yours and he blossoms into a useful reliever, that's the just the way it goes, I won't have much regret. 

*IF* somebody was to grab and keep one of our starters, and he turned into a >170-IP >3WAR/year starter, I'd regret that very much.  I'm not saying the likelihood of one of those starters both getting selected, and actually kept, and then actually being long-term good for some other team is more than remotely improbable.