It certainly is strange to see folks react strongly either way to this trade. Yes, it is odd for a non-contender to make a "win-now" move, but the Braves have spent the last 3 years trying to put up the facade of a contending team despite continually being among the worst teams in MLB. So this move is actually perfectly in line with all the other dog and pony show moves the Braves have made since the rebuild started.
It's equally silly to call this move some sort of play for future assets as if Adams is somehow going to markedly increase his trade value over the next 2 months. The Cards traded him for a fungible asset because that's the best they could get for him, and the Braves will be lucky to flip him for an asset of equal value to Yepez 2 months from now. By now, the league knows what Adams is, and no stretch of 150 ABs in a platoon situation is going to alter that.
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