Not concerned about Graterol's injury at the moment? he's been out since May with a shoulder issueUsing Fangraphs projections and prospect valuation, Stroman has about $30 million of surplus value and a Kirilloff-level prospect (55FV position player) has about $46 million of value. Getting him straight up for Stroman would be a huge win. Stroman and Giles for Kirilloff is probably about bang on, but I can't imagine them moving their two best trade chips for a single prospect.
If it's the Twins, Stroman for Graterol and a wild card prospect or two makes a lot of sense.
What's the feeling on here of whether or not Bauer is going to be made available? Would be great if the Indians decided to not sell - makes it a tighter market for buyers
Not concerned about Graterol's injury at the moment? he's been out since May with a shoulder issue
Jays should really be focus their attention on San Diego and Atlanta (both were scouting Stromans last start). Once you get these teams with deep farms in the mix maybe you can use that to your advantage and force the Twins to put Kirilloff in play or the Astros to put Tucker in play.
Bauer vs the Toronto media would make this rebuild a lot more entertaining at least.What's the feeling on here of whether or not Bauer is going to be made available? Would be great if the Indians decided to not sell - makes it a tighter market for buyers
There's an article on Sportsnet, suggesting that if the Yankees don't pick up Edwin's option, that a reunion with the Jays would be good.
That'd be interesting.
I wouldn't mind Frazier either, but he feels like more of what they already have (OF with questionable (or in his case straight up bad) defense, strikeout issues, low OBP, lots of power) and I would kind of like to see them diversify their options a bit.
It's just not a profile I like that much, and it's not one I want to have a while bunch of in a lineup.
Jackson DFA.
End of an era?
This is also the first season without waiver trades. This will be like a true trade deadline19 teams are either currently in a playoff spot, or within 3 games of a wild card spot (and there are two more teams 3.5 games back of a wild card spot).
Have to think there will be a seller's market this year with so many teams still in the mix.
IMO this is the most important two weeks in this management groups tenure thus far - we can not get mediocre returns.