If the prospects are good enough, they could probably get the Nats to eat some of the salary.
But is Moreland that much of an upgrade over Dalbac? Its going to be Aguilar or Rizzo most likely. We either eat salary for Rizzo, or more prospects for Aguilar. Both are nearly identical players, but Aguilar has control for '22 where Rizzo is a straight up rental.
Doesn’t Cleveland also try to mainly trade their good players to the NL? Lindor, Clevinger, Bauer were all traded out of the league. Not sure if that’s by design or just the way things worked out, though.
Mitch would be a minor upgrade over Bobby: about 50 points of OPS and a tick of defense. Where Mitch would make the most sense would be as the strong side of a 1B platoon with Bobby and not giving any first base starts to the likes of Santana, Cordero, or Marwin. I too would much prefer Aguilar if he can be gotten.
Maybe if we get Moreland we can have his consistently awesome first two months of every season with the Sox before he turns replacement level?
Yes, Aguilar would be preferable. I certainly hope Bloom is thinking bigger than Moreland.
On the other hand, the Washington Post MLB beat reporter, Chelsea Janes, has more:
Sadly, replacement level Mitch would blow this crew away. I too am aiming for better than Mitch, but thought he could be a cheap consolation prize if the other better candidates don't pay out.
Duran would be the centerpiece in that deal, not Downs. Unless the Mariners give up Kelenic or the Yankees give up Dominguez, it would be hard for Cleveland to find a better outfield prospect than that.
I don’t know if I agree with it, but when Fangraphs finished their top 50 trade value rankings last week, Verdugo made the list while Turner was merely an honorable mention.
Probably about as high as those pushing the "Durran is the centerpiece to obtain (name of star player here)" narrative
Why would the Nationals trade three chips for one team's package of prospects when they could get prospects from 2 or 3 teams for those same players?
You’re not even in the same stratosphere with this proposal. It will take 3 big prospects for Scherzer alone just to even enter the bidding for him.
Pretty sure he was joking, but Turner is far superior to Verdugo. If the price is reasonable you do it.
Then withdrawn. But maybe this main board thread should kinda stick to actual things.
So from this point forward the Mookie trade nets us one and a third seasons of Trea Turner?
Curious where you’re getting this from. Three “big prospects” seems like an unrealistic return, especially with Max able to steer where he goes. I still love the idea of getting him but he’s owed over $1M per start the next two months and has a 4.64 FIP in five starts since the goop crackdown (on 6/21), over which time his home runs allowed have jumped from 1.28 to a Porcellian 1.95 HR/9.
Probably somewhere in the middle of this.
Berríos or bust!
Seels hated the Betts trade and has transferred his hatred to Verdugo himself. So I would discount any trade proposals from him. He just has blind hatred of Akex. If Seels was running the team he would trade Alex for a box of baseballs.
“Early indications are the Twins asked another team that inquired about Berríos for a pre-arb player and two top-100 prospects.”
OK so - Christian Arroyo (pre-arb), Jeter Downs, and Groome (at least someone views him as top 100).
No. Why deal Duran, who is one of the most exciting young players the Sox have had in a while? I wouldn't *start* with Duran. Maybe - MAYBE - I'd deal Duran but certainly that wouldn't be my initial offer.
