I see the playoffs as being mostly a crapshoot. The biggest reason why you wouldn’t want to move prospects for immediate help before you’re ready is that a 162-game season does a pretty good job keeping bad or mediocre teams out of the playoffs entirely. That barrier is gone this year, and MLB is the NHL (hopefully only temporarily). If I’m Atkins and have basically been gifted a playoff spot, and have a chance to land a CY contender for Kloffenstein, I pull the trigger every time. Opportunities to roll the dice in the playoffs with two of the 10-15 best starters in the game and a talented, high-variance lineup don’t grow on trees.