Keeping Palmieri makes little to no sense. If we moved Hall and Coleman, why are we keeping Palmieri?
It’s been brought up multiple times but it’s true. The guy doesn’t fit our timeline and the market is drastically in our favour. We’re a garbage team with him, so why not add more pieces to get an even better foundation in the not too distant future.
With the moves we made and our current situation, there’s no way Palmieri is itching to sign an extension with us. Expecting to resign him is wishful thinking and that’s why I’d cash in now instead of getting a lower return next year.
I think your key point is the market: given the return for Coleman, it really seems like there's a sellers market right now, so it makes all the sense in the world for a rebuilding team like us to try to get as much as we possibly can for whichever players make sense to deal. We could wait until the offseason or next year for a Palms trade, but then he'll have less time left on his current deal and, who knows, it could be more of a buyers market next season. That happened in baseball recently, in 2016 the one year the Yankees weren't making the playoffs they sold off a bunch of guys in a sellers market and got an enormous return for most of them. The Mets tried to do the same in 2017 when injuries derailed their season, but it was a buyers market by then and they got painfully little.
However, again, I think we all agree that there isn't much point in selling on Palms without a really good return (e.g. at least a first and a top 50 prospect, if not more), no point in trading him just for the sake of trading him. Simmonds, Vats, etc.? Yeah, deal those guys, they won't be here next year anyway, but Palms has some value to the organization if he chooses to stick around, so don't get lowballed and bite just because, deal him because someone bowls you over.
