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Originally Posted by Matty81
If the jays make a deal giving up both Gose and D'Arnaud for Dickey... It would be AA's worst trade and its not even close. Trade your low A returns on Halladay after investing all that time and effort in them and being pretty lucky for them to progress and keep the blow up, for a guy who isn't as good and is 5 or 6 years older than Doc when he got traded? Who slipped the drugs into AA's drink yesterday?
Giving up two studs in single A is one thing, but these are two advanced top 10 prospects in AAA who are a year away from being MLB players. If D'Arnaud hits 250-260 his rookie year with his defence he's worth more than Dickey alone... 12 months later.
Would just be so incredibly short sighted. They will spend the next 5 years looking for a young talented receiver and possibly even a talented CF. Destroy the position player base at the farm and create massive holes... For a 38 year old 3 WAR pitcher with one year of service time left. Its funny farm stuff.
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Anthony Gose is an advanced prospect? Really? I don't think it's affair to assume Dickey regresses and not also be able to make the assumption that Gose never does learn to hit, is nothing more then a bench player at the MLB level and your still left trying to find an everyday CF.
Don't you invest all that time and money in them to make them also very valuable trade chips?
The flip side is you have 3 years of Reyes, Encarnacion and Bautista in their prime. Don't you have to take advantage of that to some extent? The Jays are not trying to rush a very young early 20's core to a championship. You could also argue that with the amount of MLB level talent you'd have on this team (If Dickey is traded here, it's going to come with an extension, and I think it's pretty short sighted to treat him like any other 38 year old pitcher) that your not in a win next year or be screwed. You'd still have 3 seasons to draft and develop prospects. I think it be short sighted to bring in Josh Johnson, Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera, and not change the way you are doing things.
I think the best thing that could happen is this trade just goes through already so we can stop with our hypothetical arguing lol.