I think we can agree that Goins is not half the player Tulo is, so I'll play deveils advocate from another prospective. Looking around online, the Blue Jays will have about 26 million in budget. That leaves room for one, maybe two pitchers with an awful bullpen. With Tulo you can remove 20 million off the payroll and add a pitcher through trade and allocate more money to the pitchers. The lineup was already deadly before the Tulo trade, it'll still be deadly without Tulo. He's still a premier shortstop on a contract that provides control, so he does have value.
There is no way you're trading away EE and Bautista for quality pitching and if you trade them for prospects the cap space provided from trading them won't bring the Blue Jay's much in terms of free agents.
Saying that I don't think anyone in the line up will be traded, but if a player were to get traded I'd place my bets on Tulo.
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