Less than three weeks away in this incredibly strange season...
NY doesn't really have any massive holes to fill as of now, the rotation is settling into place (Cole, Tanaka, Paxton, Montgomery) with Schmidt ready to try to take Happ's 5th spot as soon as NY allows.
But I am still obsessed with a blockbuster of Gleyber for Lindor and Clevinger, and now that Clevinger has stupidly exposed Carrasco as well as the rest of his teammates, I have to think CLE might be a bit more open to this than they would have been last week, so I started the thread. As a framework to tweak, something like this roughly:
NY would get (Baseball Trade Values values in parentheses, then year they are controlled through):
Clevinger (50.4) (2022)
Lindor (45.2) (2021)
CLE would get:
Gleyber (87.1) (2024)
Clint (7.4) (2024)
Abreu (3.4) (2025 or 2026?)
That is slightly in favor of CLE according to those values, 97.90 to 95.60 but I would also allow CLE to choose from a list of prospects and add a fourth player.
This would allow NY to let all three of Paxton/Tanaka/Happ go if they want, and they should immediately try to lock up DJ to a 3 or 4 year deal. That would set up a potential 2021 team of:
LeMahieu 2B
Judge RF
Lindor SS
Stanton DH
Voit 1B
Hicks CF
Sanchez C
Urshela 3B
Tauchman LF
Cole
Clevinger
Severino
German
Montgomery
Schmidt
The last place that CLE and their fans want to see Lindor go next is the Bronx, but after one more season, they won't be able to stop him and four full seasons of a 23 year old Gleyber is an incredible return which might not still be there this winter (if it would even be there now, but it would if it was my call).
And in 2022, maybe Jasson Dominguez bumps Hicks out of CF, hopefully our civilization makes it that long...
NY doesn't really have any massive holes to fill as of now, the rotation is settling into place (Cole, Tanaka, Paxton, Montgomery) with Schmidt ready to try to take Happ's 5th spot as soon as NY allows.
But I am still obsessed with a blockbuster of Gleyber for Lindor and Clevinger, and now that Clevinger has stupidly exposed Carrasco as well as the rest of his teammates, I have to think CLE might be a bit more open to this than they would have been last week, so I started the thread. As a framework to tweak, something like this roughly:
NY would get (Baseball Trade Values values in parentheses, then year they are controlled through):
Clevinger (50.4) (2022)
Lindor (45.2) (2021)
CLE would get:
Gleyber (87.1) (2024)
Clint (7.4) (2024)
Abreu (3.4) (2025 or 2026?)
That is slightly in favor of CLE according to those values, 97.90 to 95.60 but I would also allow CLE to choose from a list of prospects and add a fourth player.
This would allow NY to let all three of Paxton/Tanaka/Happ go if they want, and they should immediately try to lock up DJ to a 3 or 4 year deal. That would set up a potential 2021 team of:
LeMahieu 2B
Judge RF
Lindor SS
Stanton DH
Voit 1B
Hicks CF
Sanchez C
Urshela 3B
Tauchman LF
Cole
Clevinger
Severino
German
Montgomery
Schmidt
The last place that CLE and their fans want to see Lindor go next is the Bronx, but after one more season, they won't be able to stop him and four full seasons of a 23 year old Gleyber is an incredible return which might not still be there this winter (if it would even be there now, but it would if it was my call).
And in 2022, maybe Jasson Dominguez bumps Hicks out of CF, hopefully our civilization makes it that long...