I agree, you shouldn't trade him, but if the return is Stanton you have to listen.
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Everybody has an offseason plan, including this one passed on by a Kansas City blogger:
https://www.royalsreview.com/2017/11...-project-recapQuote:
Boston Red Sox
Exercised options on Chris Sale and Craig Kimbrel
Non-tendered Brock Holt, Robbie Ross, and Josh Rutledge
Trade David Price to the Phillies for JoJo Romero, Dylan Cozens, and Cornelius Randolph. Boston will pay $10 million on Price’s 2018 salary. If he chooses to stay (declines his player option), Boston will also pay $10 million for each of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Traded Xavier Bogaerts, Jackie Bradley Jr., Brian Johnson, Blake Swihart to the Marlins for Giancarlo Stanton
Traded Bryan Mata and Roniel Raudes to the Athletics for Jed Lowrie and Liam Hendriks
Traded Joe Kelly to the Phillies for Freddy Galvis
Traded Tzu-Wei Lin to the Braves for R.A. Dickey
Signed Doug Fister to a 1 year, $5 million deal with a $5 million club option
Signed Bartolo Colon to a 1 year, $3 million deal
Signed Logan Morrison to a 2 year, $18 million deal
Signed Gregor Blanco, Jeanmar Gomez, and Clay Buchholz to minor league deals
Sox need a big bat in the middle of the lineup. I'm sure they are looking beyond the obvious of Stanton and Martinez. I don't know about giving up Benni though.
Rumor has it that the Marlins are being offered a top pitching prospect plus from the cardinals and full salary relief.
I'd just assume leave both out and send Bradley. Just because the Cubs want Benintendi doesn't mean they'd take no one else. And the Sox need someone who is pre-arbitration.
The Marlins might be reluctant to include Volquez. Not sure. But no one wants Prado and they do have a lot of big, ugly contracts. Ziegler being another. ..
Miami righthander Edinson Volquez, who is owed $13 million next season, might not pitch in 2018 after undergoing Tommy John surgery in August:
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/sp...182894796.html
Scroll down.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2...-year-injuries
They teally don't need one. They were still one of the top scoring teams without one. That's just the quick easy fix.
Nine teams in the AL hit more home runs than Boston and still scored fewer runs. Home runs are exciting and fun, but any upgrade over Mitch Moreland will be an improvement.
But I hope it isn't Hosmer. Carlos Santana? Yes. Hosmer? No...