New Kid on the Trade Block?

I think whoever gets him will end up giving up a lot of guys, because teams are going to outbid each other, like they do with free agent.

but…um…no. Think back to the Hudson and Mulder deals — Peavy’s going to be worth at least that. Three players, including one promising starter, one MLB-ready role player, and one pretty big-time prospect. (The Mulder deal worked out a bit better than the Hudson one, but averaging the two gives you a decent framework.) MAYBE the Pads would see TG in the role player spot in that deal. I’m guessing Parra would need to go the other way to make this happen, and there’d be a top-10 or better prospect in the deal on top of that.

Now pretty soon I’ll be reading on MLB Trade Rumors that Milwaukee will convert Prince Fielder to CF and trade him (with eighteen others and cash, of course) for Peavy. Although at least that would put an end to the ridiculous Cain rumors.

Because that would have to be the biggest coup in baseball history.

Since we don’t have the prospects to do it, we’d have to give up some major league talent. I’m guessing it would look something like Hardy, Parra, Jeffress, and TGJ for Peavy and Greene.

I don’t think Parra, Jeffress, and TGJ would cut it, but adding hardy would be giving up too much, so Greene would even it up a bit.

I’m probably the only one, but I would make that trade in a heart beat. Jake Peavy is a stud.

Here is a story that makes it sound like high quality, inexpensive pitching would be the heart of the deal. “Some” in the majors and “some” nearly ready. Can “some” be interpreted as singular rather than plural? My guess would be Parra plus Bush plus Jeffries plus ? along with Gwynn and/or Green maybe – hard to say on the fourth pitcher and the position player. Then you have a great pitcher but at a rate that isn’t cheap.

when i started thinking about this, I thought maybe Gamel, Jeffress, and Salome would do it. then we go year-to-year with Prince and try to make a run in the next three years, at which point we might be able to restock from the minors again, given extra picks in 2009, etc. i think Gamel has potential, but i’m not sold on him. maybe the Padres are.

the idea is that acquiring Peavy makes us competitive now, so we need to maintain our major league level talent in acquiring him. i’d give up the farm now, because in three years, after Prince walks and we get some extras draft picks, we could trade Peavy’s last two years for some new talent and start another youth movement with that haul and whatever Jack Z (hopefully) has restocked us with by that point.

that said, “Matching Gwynn with a young pitcher plus a throw in or two” is not going to get it done. the Padres might like Gwynn, but i don’t think they’d consider him a centerpiece in a trade for one of the five best pitchers in baseball.

That’s kind of scary.