4-Way Trade Idea

[Backtobanks]

From MLBTR:

Also, Padres GM Kevin Towers revealed in a radio interview that the Angels asked about a Peavy-Adrian Gonzalez package deal, but the Padres don't want to trade Gonzalez. As a baseball fan, I like it when Towers reveals things like this. It must be incredibly frustrating for rival GMs though.

 

 

It won't happen, but it's fun to speculate:

 

1. Pie + Hill for Olsen

2. Lee for Morales + Weaver (LAA)

3. Morales, Cedeno, Olsen, Marquis (plus cash), Hart/Wuertz/Gaudin/Guzman, Vitters for Peavy and Gonzalez.

 

O's get potential in the OF and a reclamation project SP (Hill reunited with Kranitz)

 

SD gets 1B (replacing Gonzalez), SS (replacing Greene), 2 cheap SP, 1 cheap RP, plus stud prospect 3B. (Cuts big money from budget)

 

LAA gets solid bat at 1B if they lose Texiera. (Lee goes to South California - waives NTC)

 

Cubs get cheap, young, LH, power bat at 1B plus stud pitcher.

 

Cubs go on to sign Bradley and continue to have depth provided by DeRosa and Marshall.

 

Soriano

Theriot

Aram

Gonzalez

Bradley

Soto

DeRosa/Fontenot

Fukudome/Johnson

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[Derwood]

can we put "Rumor/Idea" in the thread title please?

[BigbadB]

There is no way San Diego does this, and I can't imagine Anaheim would be inspired either.

 

San Diego wants pitching, and this trade gives them less pitching than the previously rumored trades for just Peavy. Unless you just forgot to include Weaver in the deal to San Diego. I still don't see Anaheim giving up that package for Lee. If they are serious about Peavy and Gonzalez, they can offer up a better package than what the Cubs would be offering.

[AZCub]

I doubt we could get Weaver for Lee straight up.

 

Also, Lee isn't waving his NTC. His daughter's health is paramount to him, and the research in Chicago regarding her condition is the leading source in the world. D-Lee is a Cub until that contract runs out.

[nilodnayr]

but the Padres don't want to trade Gonzalez

 

seriously...its right in the post, the padres don't want to trade gonzalez.

[Backtobanks]

There is no way San Diego does this, and I can't imagine Anaheim would be inspired either.

 

San Diego wants pitching, and this trade gives them less pitching than the previously rumored trades for just Peavy. Unless you just forgot to include Weaver in the deal to San Diego. I still don't see Anaheim giving up that package for Lee. If they are serious about Peavy and Gonzalez, they can offer up a better package than what the Cubs would be offering.

 

Yea, I forgot to include Weaver to SD. Instead of getting Weaver from LAA, maybe another young pitcher. (i.e. Lee for Morales plus Moseley/Jepsen/etc.) I agree that SD probably wouldn't make the deal, but they would be getting back 3 starters, 1 reliever, a 1B, SS, and a top 3B prospect and cutting a ton of money. Peavy has to go somewhere in the next few months and if he plays hardball about wanting to go to the Cubs, maybe Hendry can work some kind of magic possibly by adding another young pitcher (Guzman, Gaudin, Marshall, etc.). Lee probably wouldn't want to waive his NTC, but if he did it would be to the West Coast.

[JeffH]

It's silly to speculate on trades where one team gets the two most valuable properties in the deal.

[Backtobanks]

It's silly to speculate on trades where one team gets the two most valuable properties in the deal.

 

You're entitled to your opinion, but what constitutes "valuable property" depends on the teams involved and their specific situations. "Valuable" to a rebuilding team with lots of holes could be getting 6 or 7 good prospects for a player they can't afford to keep.

[inari]

It's silly to speculate on trades where one team gets the two most valuable properties in the deal.

 

What he said. The one thing that most of your trade proposals have in common is that the Cubs rip off all other teams involved.