Jake Wesley strikes again!
Price (and JBJ) to LAD for Pollock might make sense, except Pollock can’t play center anymore and might not even be an average left fielder either. Like Myers, his AAV ($12m) is lower than his 2020 annual salary ($16), so it favors our situation.
I posted
upthread that they might trade Price straight up for Pollock and Kelly, which still saves them more than $10m against the tax, and then trade Benny for a starter, but that may be less possible now with Mazara flipped and Marte, Rosario and Nimmo all reportedly on the market.
Not much. If Bloom has a deal in hand to trade Benny for, let’s say, Matthew Boyd, then maybe trading Price for Upton straight up makes some sense, with Upton moving to DH if/when JDM opts out next year. I still think Price is undervalued, but I could live with that swap.