Comments on: Wil Myers is the best Trade Chip We Have

By: Ed Kranepool

Ed Kranepool — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:50:10 +0000

It’s too early to deal away prospects for an ace. We’re in dead last in the AL right now and teams in dead last do not go get aces. Maybe your trade suggestion is for next season some time? I would say it’s too early then, as well.

I would argue that the timing for such a trade would put anyone above A ball pretty much out of the trade equation. As strange as this may sound, Bubba Starling is more likely to be part of such a trade than Wil Myers, imo.

By: Jeff Herr

Jeff Herr — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:36:20 +0000

I am definitely not a ‘trade value’ expert, but I don’t think the value is as far off as you are making sound. Laughably bad package? Why? Myers is as an elite of a hitter, talent-wise, as they come, Lough is a solid outfielder the equivalent of a Lorenzo Cain, Dwyer might be struggling but he has some value, and Yambati is a young, raw talent. You might have to switch him out for Ventura which I wouldn’t like as much, but I don’t think it’s a ‘laughably’ bad package as you suggest.

Further, the question here, which you answered, is that would you make a trade. I don’t like the idea of trading prospects any more than anybody else, but if we were confident we could get a young pitcher that we could get to stay here for 5-10 years it would be worth it. Nobody thought the Mariners were just one ace away and look what a difference Pineida has made combining with Hernandez, they are only 2.5 games back with the worst offense in the majors, compared to the 10 game gap the Royals currently have.

If we had Felix and Duffy or Monty became legit, we would be a better team than they are with our offense. This is why I presented the package I did, so we could keep most of our high pitching prospects with the hope that one of them would turn into a legit #2.

Difference of opinions are good, just food for thought.

By: geo

geo — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:58:45 +0000

Never mind if I would make that trade, neither the Mariners nor the Angels would. Beyond Myers that is a laughably bad package, especially for Felix.

Now, would I make that deal? No. Not because it’s Myers, but because the Royals are nowhere near being just one ace pitcher away, and until they are, you don’t trade your prospects for one, period.