Disappointing teams often talk about a rapid retool, selling off old players and expiring contracts at the trade deadline for prospects on the cusp. It’s a simple plan — inject young talent into the upper minors and get back to winning next year.It’s rarely that simple.With the Jays promoting infield prospect Charles McAdoo on Thursday, though, their 2024 trade deadline haul continues to bear fruit. McAdoo becomes the fourth current Jay with ties to that August sell-off, with others close behind. The franchise’s worst season in the last six years is now somehow keeping the 2026 team’s hopes alive.“We were pretty deliberate with it, to where you can kind of restock a little bit from like the Double-A level up,” manager John Schneider said last year, “and hopefully the uptick in development continues.”The Jays, with a 51-58 record at the 2024 deadline, traded eight veterans for a haul of minor leaguers. Yusei Kikuchi went to Houston, Justin Turner to Seattle, Isiah Kiner-Falefa to Pittsburgh and more. The trades brought back 13 prospects, and now four players on Toronto’s current roster have direct or indirect ties to that 2024 deadline. McAdoo was the return for Kiner-Falefa, Yohendrick Piñango for Nate Pearson, while Brandon Valenzuela and Jesús Sánchez were acquired with pieces from the Kikuchi trade, Will Wagner and Joey Loperfido.