Why there is outrage about this is that they wrare never givein a chance to show what they had to offer yes they had a chance in training but that is not the same as playing a game.
Yep, so when Arsenal and Man U needed help they thought about fairness and reached into their deep programs and gave a chance to Henry and Scholes, right?
Wrong, they only thought about winning. They didn't say here is my chance to give a young bloke a chance, they said what do I have to win and they chose maturity over inexperience in the situations where it mattered.
You don't have to like it, but Hans likes experience. Maybe in MLS that is the wrong strategy, but he has traded for many US or MLS-based players that he believed had the experience he was looking for. That he and Soler have come to learn that trading in the MLS is tough, they have learned to look elsewhere, which includes the US lower divisions (Arteaga, etc).
Hans is not the nurturing type. You are not changing that old dog. He's nearly got all of the tools lined up and he's going to go for it. It may blow up in his face, but that's the hand we've been dealt for 2012.
If you haven't, everyone should see the movie Moneyball. Here was the "can't miss" prospect Billie Beene, the guy with all the tools, not just some, yet he couldn't cut it in the majors. This stuff happens every day of the year in pro sports. MLS doesn't have a minor league system where they can send players to till they are ready. Football drafts a huge number of players and cuts so many every year. I think the average tenure in football is only 6 years or so. Most players hang around for a few years and then are gone. Not that many manage to play for 10-15 years.
Like I said in my first post, I was surprised by Kassel and am sorry these guys aren't cutting it, but I watch in baseball how the top teams use prospects in trades all the time. It's part of life.