Kyle Tucker+Preston Tucker+Colin Moran+Daz Cameron+Joe Musgrove+AJ Reed for Mike Trout. Alex Bregman+Johnathan Singleton+Derek Fisher+Paulino+Whitley for Chis Sale. Mostly guts the system but we get top end talent. That is what we need to be able to break through and win the WS.
LAA would laugh at that offer. We do not have enough minor league talent to add both Trout and Sale. It would require giving up Springer and LMJ, at the least.
Spoiler Arizona - Shelby Miller? Daniel Hudson? Atlanta - Jim Johnson? Julio Teheran? Erick Aybar? Chicago - Chris Sale? Jose Quintana? David Robertson? Todd Frazier? James Shields? Cincinnati - Jay Bruce? Anthony DeSclafani? Kansas City - Edinson Volquez? Kendrys Morales? Ian Kennedy? Los Angeles - Joe Smith? Hector Santiago? Huston Street? Milwaukee - Jonathan Lucroy? Will Smith? Jeremy Jeffress? Ryan Braun? Minnesota - Ervin Santana? Ricky Nolasco? Kurt Suzuki? New York - Carlos Beltran? Nathan Eovaldi? Ivan Nova? Michael Pineda? CC Sabathia? Brian McCann? Mark Teixeira? Brett Gardner? Alex Rodriguez? Oakland - Sonny Gray? Josh Reddick? Rich Hill? Danny Valencia? Philadelphia - Jeremy Hellickson? Jeanmar Gomez? Carlos Ruiz? Ryan Howard? San Diego - Derek Norris? Seattle - Wade Miley? Tampa Bay - Chris Archer? Matt Moore? Jake Odorizzi? Erasmo Ramirez? Steve Pearce? Just about all the names in the rumor mill. Spoiler <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Source: Kendrys Morales does not have a no-trade clause. Astros, Rangers may have interest, though Rangers seek pitching more. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Royals?src=hash">#Royals</a></p>— Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FlannyMLB/status/759777182600146944">July 31, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sources: Teams known to have at least discussed Rich Hill with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Athletics?src=hash">#Athletics</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dodgers?src=hash">#Dodgers</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueJays?src=hash">#BlueJays</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Rangers?src=hash">#Rangers</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Astros?src=hash">#Astros</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pirates?src=hash">#Pirates</a>.</p>— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/759816929519476736">July 31, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The astros are going to trade themselves into a losing franchise with no minor league talent. I wish, wish, wish, the astros still had Vincent Velasquez. You never, ever should trade top pitching talent, because from year to year you don't know which pitchers are going to drop off the map. Thinking mchugh and dkeuchel were the next glavine and greg maddox got them into trouble, in the first place. Hell, trading villar wasn't a great move either.
Rumored names that would make me happy: Lucroy, Archer, Sale, Quintana, Robertson, Gray Rumored names that would make me sad: Hill Rumored names that would make me shrug: Norris, Vogt, Santana, Volquez, Moore, Smyly, Odorizzi, Beltran, Logan, Pineda,Smith, Morales, Kennedy, Pearce, Reddick, Santiago
The astros are burning through their farm system at record rates. And I for one don't believe the astros have the pitching to win it this year, even with sale.
If this is the 25 man roster on Aug 31, I don't care if there's a single player left in the minor leagues: RF Springer LF Bregman 2B Altuve SS Correa C Lucroy 3B Gurriel 1B Reed DH Gattis CF Rasmus Bench: Marwin, Marisnick, ??? Rotation: Archer, Keuchel, McCullers, McHugh, ??? Bullpen: ???, ???, ???, ???, Sipp, Harris, Gregerson, Giles
Looking like Gallo and either Mendez or Ortiz for Lucroy. That's the equivalent of Reed and either Musgrove, Paulino, or Martes. Huge cost but damnit I will hate to see Lucroy in Dallas.
Plus a few more pieces. Possibly Jefferies and one of their starters may be involved, which would be awesome in the gutting the Rangers system. That's really all I care about. Then Hamels needing Tommy John, Lucroy not meshing with the pitchers and life will be grand!
