..but 2011 with Jackson we could be a good team. If Jackson proves himself to be a solid starter, the Pirates will have almost two years to lock him up long-term. Capps and Jaramillo are expendable… if it came down to the Tigers asking for Lincoln, I’d still pull the trigger. Tabata, I’d hang onto.

Jaramillo has way more value being traded than internally. Also, It’s a little scary how much we, as Pirate fans, value Capps when the Brewers would prefer Gomez to the guy. I think there’s still some circles in baseball that believe in Capps, but he obviously doesn’t have the value he did in ‘07 or ’08. Jaramillo will probably never start full time for the Pirates, unless we deal Doumit, which I don’t see happening.

Lincoln, I’ve never been as big of a fan of as others on this site. He has yet to show he can even get past AAA (Although I think he will) and he’ll be 25 in May. If you’re asking me if I’d rather have a 26 yr old Jackson who posted All-Star like numbers in the first half of the ‘09 season, yes I would. Ultimately, there’s others in the organization I’d prefer to give up over Lincoln (D McCutch? Gorkys? Maybe even Clement?) to get Jackson. Looks like I’m in the minority here tho… Fun to debate!

I’m the only one that’s nuts. Take Jackson and Lincoln both out of the equation and I think we still have two pieces (Capps and Jaramillo or Diaz) that Detroit could benefit from adding.

the trouble at this point is, we don’t have expendable prospects. Brad Lincoln is out of the question as a trade piece. But, depending on what the Tigers want, and who else is interested in Jackson (New York, apparently, as mlbtr points out), I could see the Bucs making a run with some combination of Pearce, Capps, maybe a catcher, and perhaps Clement- not all of them, just a couple… its not clear to me at this point, whether we consider a catcher expendable… Jaramillo, Diaz (who seems to be an infield backup as well this year)… and as jlk pointed out, Jaramillo has more value than it seems in Pittsburgh, where he’s “stuck” behind Doumit! (ofc, with Doumit being as injury-prone as he is….)

First of all, Jackson is owed way too much money in arbitriation then the Pirates are willing to pay. Second, it’ll take one if not two solid prospects to land Jackson, the Pirates are not willing to part with the few good prospects they have. Third, is starting pitching even our biggest need?

Keep and eye on developing three-way trade talk with Tigers and Mariners and mystery team involving M’s Brandon Morrow and Dets Jackson

via USA today and twitter

think maybe we could be jumping in the middle of this deal? we’re no doubt familiar with both team’s minor league systems and detroit has need for a cheap catcher, which we’ve got in spades at the moment. maybe we could pry a half decent prospect and a player about to get purged from someone’s 40 man?