Red(s)HawksFan said:
Why trade Hanigan when the easier thing to do is jettison the waste of space that is Sandy Leon? Hanigan has value to the team beyond this season since he's locked up for two more years (club option in '17). He's good insurance against one of or both Swihart and Vazquez not being ready for full time big league action.
Not arguing Hanigan doesn't have his value, but how good of an insurance policy is he really? An early run of walks this season aside, he's a declining player who's arguably not even capable of handling the type of workload the people calling to send Swihart down want to dump back in his lap.
So we send Swihart down and there's a decent chance he's back in what, a month? Plus this season already sucks enough without upping the dose of Leon. My vote is to just leave Swihart alone and let him continue to take his progression lumps up here.