Maybe G's fans are just too accustomed to it, to even notice. But this is certainly not how "No Big FA's, focus on growth from w/in" philosophy teams do it.

Deadline deals just off the top of my head:

2011-
Carlos Beltran deal -- top 3 organizational prospect Zack Wheeler
Orlando Cabrera deal -- top 10 org. prospect Thomas Neal

2010-
Jose Guillen deal -- top 10 org prospect Kevin Pucetas
Jose Lopez deal -- MLB depth guys and longtime prospects John Bowker + Joe Martinez
Ramon Ramirez deal -- top 25 prospect Daniel Turpen

2009-
Freddy Sanchez deal -- former first Rd Pick and (at the time) top 5 org prospect Tim Alderson
Ryan Garko deal -- top 10 org prospect Scott Barnes

2008-
No Need...lousy team.

2007-
No Need...lousy team.

2006-
Shea Hillenbrand deal -- top Lefty and top 5 (at the time) org prospect Jeremy Accardo.

2005-
Randy Winn deal -- Former top OVERALL prospect Jesse Foppert and top 10 org prospect Yorvit Torrealba

We're routinely dealing from our top-10 org prospect pool (and generally even higher) nearly every season and the only thing holding us back apparently are seasons projected at 70 wins or less.

We've made deadline deals using top prospects 5 out of the last 7 seasons and the only thing keeping that tally from being a perfect 7 out of 7 were some HORRIBLE teams in '07 and '08.

And for all this deadline dealing, we've made the PO's once in that span...although that whole WS Championship thing was a pretty nice payoff.

Point being, if the organization is going to decide to emphasize growth from w/in, then AT THE VERY LEAST they need to be more efficient when mortgaging prospects to chase after a PO spot. To this point, we haven't. Not by a long shot.

Most yrs there are about 7-8 teams who sacrifice their future for the *now* during deadline deals...we've been one of those teams like 80% of the time during Sabean's tenure. It's mostly certainly routine, IMO, and inconsistent w/ a "grow from w/in" type of approach.