“It certainly is a priority for this organization to keep this group together as long as possible and make all the pieces fit for as long as we can,” Hahn said then. “When we presented the blueprint for the rebuild a few years back to (Chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf), one element of it was our economic strategy and that included continuing to be aggressive trying to sign young players, perhaps being even more aggressive than we have before, as you saw with Eloy and Luis, signing them before they had a big-league (at-bat).