Trade Bait

This is a general outlook. I might of over-exgaraded with the amount of prospects. maybe 8-10 prospects.

i think you may have been right with maholm b/c of the way he pitched this year but the rest i think are a little high especially laroche who might be good for 2 or 3.

but you do bring up a few good names who could definitely get the pirates some much needed prospects.

i would especially focus on the relievers like grabow and capps only b/c the pirates do have some talented relievers in the system like jeff sues and there are many teams (as you said like the mets) who lack a solid bullpen

I don’t think AdLa would be a hot winter pickup. Maybe we can get something for him near the deadline, when he actually hits the ball. But, if I recall correctly, he’ll be going into his FA year, so I doubt he would get anything of substance.

should probably be traded during the offseason. He sucks the first couple months of the season, and his numbers usually look terrible at the deadline.

Also, I wouldn’t bet any of our guys getting too many prospects, unless they are average prospects, and in that case I would not want them. Matt Capps could probably get us someone pretty good like a Jered Weaver from the Angels, Maholm could probably get us something like Jeffries and Escobar from the Brewers, LaRoche could maybe get us someone like Alderson from the Giants, and Grabow could get us something like Adam Miller and a PTBNL from the Indians. Freddy Sanchez has little value and I would wait to trade him.

…the number of prospects we receive is going to be inversely proportional to the quality of those prospects. I.e. we might be able to get one really good player for Capps, or two pretty good ones, or three moderately interesting ones. It kind of depends what you’re looking for, and what the other team has to offer.

Also, keep in mind that any vet-for-prospect deal is going to create congestion on the 40-man roster, so plan accordingly before you pull the trigger.

Seems like the Pirates have a number of quality arms, although some underperformed this year. Still, it would make some sense to trade guys who might be expensive by the time the team is competitive.

There also seems to be a shortage of 2nd basemen. If Freddy’s down year was due to injury and he’s expected to be healthy, I think there are teams who would offer value in trade.

the problem with trading freddy sanchez or jack wilson for that matter is that we have no one in the system to fill in for them. there is no way i would want to have bixler or cruz starting at any point next year

to trade Sanchez at an all time low. Personally, he would not fetch us a whole bunch. My suggestion, provided he is healthy is to trade Jack and let Sanchez take SS for the time being.

Granted his range is almost awful for that position, but it’s a sight better than Bixler at SS. 2B is much easier to fill and we have a few candidates in house and a few cheap options on the FA market that could pan out.

We are going to be gawd awful anyhow. Let Sanchez regroup with his Bat and show he is healthy. His value will rise, because everyone knows he isn’t an everyday SS. He’ll be traded as a 2B. Granted he won’t hit a ton of HR’s but if he get’s his AVG up his OBP will rise and tied to that should be a whole bunch of 2B’s 40-50 on a year. He’ll net us some value.