Trading Hammel

[Little Slide Rooter]

There's no way to sugar coat the bulk of his second half, but I have to assume that there are a lot of teams who'd love to have him as a 4 or even 3 starter.

 

And I know that you can never have too much depth, but assuming that we were to sign a front end starter and acquire another mid rotation arm with Hendricks pencilled in at 5, with Cahill, Wood, and a parade of Bosio specials, I'm thinking he'd be more valuable as a trade chip than a swing man/mop up.

 

Maybe packaging him with Vogelbach or Villanueva would maximize the value of both?

[davell]

If we can get someone to take his salary off our hands, I'd do it. There's plenty of starting pitching on the market, I don't think he's got any value currently. Assuming we've got the ability to accomplish whatever our off season goals are, I'm fine with holding onto him as a 6th guy, since we're likely to need him at some point.

[StylesClash]

We're talking about a 33 year old who two years in a row has had awful second halves. Its possible a small market team would take a chance on buying low on Hammel (since he's only due nine million dollars).

 

But unless a team throws something of real quality value Theo's way I'd prefer keeping Hammel and having him compete for the fifth starter's spot. Worst case scenario is Hammel continues to pitch poorly and gets banished to a long relief role.

[Guest]

So...People want to trade Hammel because he's established a pattern of being awesome in the first half and then awful in the second?

 

If you really believe that pattern is writ in stone, wouldn't this be the most stupid time to trade him? Let him be awesome again in the first half and then move him.

[Guest]

So...People want to trade Hammel because he's established a pattern of being awesome in the first half and then awful in the second?

 

If you really believe that pattern is writ in stone, wouldn't this be the most stupid time to trade him? Let him be awesome again in the first half and then move him.

 

i don't beleive it's writ in stone. he might continue to suck in the first half next year. just want to get someone better into the rotation.

[Banedon]

So...People want to trade Hammel because he's established a pattern of being awesome in the first half and then awful in the second?

 

If you really believe that pattern is writ in stone, wouldn't this be the most stupid time to trade him? Let him be awesome again in the first half and then move him.

 

i don't beleive it's writ in stone. he might continue to suck in the first half next year. just want to get someone better into the rotation.

 

Plus, even if it is written in stone, why wouldn't you want to get someone in his spot that can pitch the whole season, instead of just half of it? There's no guarantee that you're gonna have someone to fill his spot midseason unless you go after that now.

[minnesotacubsfan]

I'd trade him based on his first half

[Tryptamine]

It always made sense to me that he'd be included in a deal to CLE who is trying to compete next year as well. Something like Soler+Hammel for Salazar+Justus.