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Originally Posted by Parallex
You can’t subtract an important part of the offense for Pitching… a run is a run is a run whether it’s a run made or a run saved they all count the same.
Trading away a productive hitter for a productive pitcher is a net gain of nothing. It’s robbing Peter to pay Paul and entirely unproductive. Besides a team that’s selling will want futures (AKA not Joey Bats or EE) and a team that’s contending won’t want to trade away a good enough pitcher to justify that cost (least of all to a team that has pretentions of contending themselves).
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Not when trading that hitter will likely still leave you with a top 3-5 offensive team in baseball. Bringing in a decent starter and reliever for Bautista would do wonders for this club as Tulo will really soften the blow of losing Bautista. One trade could hypothetically make them drop from #1 in offense to #5 but raise them in defense from #30 to #20... which would be awesome for this team. That's likely 5-10 more wins if that's what we had all year. There's no rule that says trading offense for defense will result in a net difference of zero runs.
You are likely right about the prospects of trading Bautista and Edwin for help now as teams with arms to spare aren't going to want those guys... unless they are good teams, in which case they'd want to keep their surplus pitching and go all in.
Who's to say they can't trade JB/EE for prospects and then flip a combination of that return plus some of what they already have to a third team for pitching? Surely there is a seller out there that would take a mixture of Jays assets and another team's assets in return for a pitcher...