No one was calling on Anthopolous to "gut the team." Trading Ozuna, Iglesias and Johnson doesn't tear the beating heart out of a roaring lion. Murphy would have been a more painful loss, but everyone understood that's only a move you make if you can extract a pound of flesh. And it's not going to change how many tickets you sell or how much foot traffic you get in the Battery -- you still have Acuna, Riley, Albies, Olson, Harris, Strider, Baldwin, etc.
Aside from the substance of things, I'm getting a little tired of Anthopolous' public commentary. "I wasn't going to gut the team." "We're not going to make moves just to make moves." "Wheresoever did you get the notion that we prioritized resetting the luxury tax last offseason? Why, there were multiple moves I was oh-so-close to making that would have shot us miles over the luxury tax." It's smarmy and reeks of strawman building.